House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that the House won’t attach a debt ceiling hike to a bill to fund relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey, just days after the Trump administration called for pairing the two.
McCarthy told Fox Business on Tuesday that the Harvey relief bill will pass the House on its own, unattached to any other legislative priorities.
The Harvey bill, scheduled for a vote Thursday, “will not be attached to anything,” McCarthy said. He assured viewers that the House would pass a clean debt ceiling increase soon after, as the supplemental Harvey relief bill would require such a move for adequate funding.
We will deal with the debt ceiling regardless if Harvey even arrived in America, and now we ar…
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