House Freedom Caucus members on Tuesday said they would oppose the debt ceiling agreement reached by President Biden House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and called on McCarthy to scrap the weekend deal to work on something that would more aggressively cut back on government spending.
Ten members of the caucus told reporters that the deal allows for unlimited borrowing, includes cuts that mostly reflect emergency COVID spending that should be ending anyway, and fails to include measures for border security. House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Penn., described the deal as "absolutely and completely unacceptable."
"We will do everything in our power to disrupt it," Perry said. "I am focused on defeating this bill."
It wasn't clear as of Thursday that enough Republicans would oppose the agreement to have it fail in the House on Wednesday. Several Democrats are likely to vote for it in a show of support to Biden, and as of Tuesday, only about two dozen Republicans had announced they will either vote against it or are thinking of voting against it.
