US Representative Jim Jordan, a leading House conservative, said on Sunday that fellow conservatives are not discussing replacing Speaker Paul Ryan despite unhappiness with the way Republican leaders handled last week\u2019s debt ceiling increase that included no fiscal reforms. Many Republicans are unhappy with the deal President Donald Trump reached last week with Democratic leaders to raise the government\u2019s debt ceiling and allow it to continue financing federal spending programs until Dec. 8.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Jordan, a Republican, appeared to cast blame for the debt ceiling hike on party leaders including Ryan, saying they had not provided any \u201cgood options\u201d to Trump before he struck a deal with Democrats. \u201cIn this situation, he (Trump) wasn\u2019t presented with good options,\u201d said Jordan, co-founder and former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, the most conservative group in the House.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one is talking about changing the leadership,\u201d Jordan told Fox. He said a Washington Post story last week that reported that conservatives had met with Ryan to express their dismay about the debt ceiling increase was \u201chardly news,\u201d because the lawmakers meet with Ryan every week.
\nRebellious conservatives pushed out Republican John Boehner, Ryan\u2019s predecessor, as speaker in 2015.<\/p>\n
The new plan also authorized spending $15.25 billion in emergency disaster relief for the victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Ninety House Republicans, including many members of the Freedom Caucus, voted against the measure, which Trump has now signed into law. Conservatives have long called for coupling spending reforms with any measures that raise the U.S. debt ceiling. But the deal did the opposite, raising the ceiling and paying for hurricane relief without spending cuts elsewhere. Republican leaders had urged an 18-month extension of the debt ceiling, but Trump accepted the three-month extension proposed by Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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