House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s recently released plan to avoid a debt default “full of gimmicks” at a brief press availability Monday afternoon. But conservatives in his party aren’t happy with it, and it’s unclear whether it has enough support to pass the House.
Boehner deferred a question about a vote count on the bill to his Whip, Kevin McCarthy (D-CA), who didn’t address the question head on. “We have just laid it out to our members,” he said. “We believe that we laid out our core position, that we were not raising more than we have in cuts, and we will not have revenues.”
Senate Republicans are gearing up to oppose Reid’s plan as well — it could come to a vote as early as Wednesday morning. The outcome of the debt limit standoff depends in large part on the ordering and the outcome of the votes in both chambers. I’ll game that out in a forthcoming post.
