‘Let’s Fight Now’ Over Debt Ceiling, House GOP Lawmaker Says
- Freedom Caucus member Roy says they’ll enforce McCarthy deal
- White House: Attempts to leverage debt ceiling ‘will not work’
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A conservative Republican at the center of the tortured effort to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’d welcome a hard-fought battle over the US debt ceiling, but said both parties should start negotiating terms for the increase now so it doesn’t go down to the wire.
“Our point is, let’s fight now to end the status quo,” Representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “Let’s get in the room now.”