JUST IN: The House has passed the GOP's debt limit plan, a symbolic win for Republican leadership. The measure isn't expected to pass the Democratic-led Senate.
The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill raising the nation’s debt ceiling, after days of wrangling Republican lawmakers to unify behind the package, which would bolster House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s position at the negotiating table with the White House. The final vote was 217-215, with four Republicans – Ken Buck of Colorado, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Matt Gaetz of Florida – voting against the bill. McCarthy could only lose four votes and prevail on the vote.
Behind closed-doors, McCarthy sought to downplay the last-minute tweaks and framed them as “technical changes,” according to a source in the room, in an attempt to mollify concerns from members. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer also defended leadership’s decision to reverse course and make changes to the plan they had initially drafted. “The bill was closed. You just heard that there were technical changes. There’s nothing of substance that was changed in the bill,” Emmer said at a news conference.
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