Hardline Republican lawmakers vowed to “do everything” in their power to stop a bipartisan deal to raise the US debt ceiling from being signed into law, as Kevin McCarthy rushed to whip votes in support of the agreement and avert a default.
Scott Perry, a rightwing congressman from Pennsylvania who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, on Tuesday lashed out at McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House, saying he had “totally fail[ed] to deliver” on his mandate to “hold the line” in negotiations with the White House.
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