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Speaker Kevin McCarthy released the text of the House Republican draft proposal to raise the debt limit while rolling back a laundry list of President Joe Biden’s signature policy achievements at least a week before it is likely to reach the House floor.
That level of transparency (which is unusual with this sort of smorgasbord bill, and one of the changes McCarthy committed to during his lengthy battle to win the speaker’s gavel) will give his members plenty of time to digest it and rally to support — or find novel reasons to oppose it.
