Jun 20
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that he would negotiate a debt-ceiling increase with spending cuts, potentially setting up another fight with President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.
“Well, you know, I could say the sun’s not going to come up tomorrow, but guess what? It is. So the president can say,
‘I’m not going to negotiate on the debt limit.’ Get over it,” he told CNBC, in an interview scheduled to air later Thursday. “We’re spending more money than what we’re bringing in. We have to deal with this problem. And if we’re going to raise the debt limit then we’ve got to do something about what’s causing us to spend more money than what we bring in.”
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