Senate GOP Aide: ‘Ted Cruz And His Tortilla Coast Republicans Are Leading Us To A Default’

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, center, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, walk to a closed-door meeting in the Old Senate Chamber on Monday, July 15, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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With the possibility of breaching the debt limit looking more and more plausible as House Republicans struggle to appease their caucus and come up with a plan to re-open the government and increase the debt ceiling, one Senate Republican aide placed the blame on a particular senator from Texas.

“Ted Cruz and his Tortilla Coast Republicans are leading us to a default,” the aide told TPM when asked what happens next.

Cruz reportedly met with a group of House conservatives at Tortilla Coast, a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., to discuss strategy Monday night.

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