Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) circulated a memo on May 24 encouraging Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to “hold the line” on Republicans’ debt ceiling demands.
“I hope … Speaker McCarthy continues to pressure President [Joe] Biden to do what is right for the American people,” Roy wrote in a memo to his colleagues obtained by The Epoch Times.
McCarthy and Biden have been negotiating a deal to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling.
McCarthy and his caucus have demanded as much as a 22 percent cut in spending, as included in the party’s Limit, Save, Grow Act—a demand Biden and the Democrat party have called “unacceptable.”…