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The House Freedom Caucus has said that it will not entertain further discussion on the nation’s debt ceiling, indicating it will not vote for a compromise bill between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden, who is under pressure from more Democrats to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid a default.
“The Freedom Caucus calls on Speaker McCarthy and Senate Republicans to use every leverage and tool to ensure the Limit, Save, Grow Act is signed into law. There should be no further discussion until the Senate passes the legislation,” the caucus wrote in a statement sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Act was passed by the House in April after negotiations with the Freedom Caucus.
The statement did not say whether the caucus would whip votes against any compromise bill that may be introduced after negotiations between Biden and McCarthy, whose staffs are currently negotiating a deal to raise the debt limit. The caucus has argued that the Limit, Save, Grow Act – which, among other things, would repeal Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, student debt cancellation and add work requirements to welfare programs – is necessary to reduce the budget deficit and debt.
