Ryan, Geithner at Odds Over Plan to Increase U.S. Debt Limit
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Republican leaders haven’t pledged to raise the nation’s debt limit yet, even as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said they know it’s necessary.
The Wisconsin Republican congressman, who won House approval last week of his plan to cut more than $6 trillion in spending over a decade, said Republicans will continue to demand that any debt-limit increase be accompanied by additional spending cuts.