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The White House seized on that messaging this week by pointing to provisions in the bill that would reduce spending for border security, accusing Republicans of holding the economy “hostage unless they are allowed to lay off thousands of border patrol agents.”
The numbers come as McCarthy seeks to wrangle enough Republican support to get his debt ceiling package through the House, with the speaker hoping to bring the bill to the floor for a vote sometime this week.
The two-page memo does not go into detail on how the caucus would implement the plan, but it alludes to a framework that would take “a reasonable, responsible bipartisan approach.”