Thune soft-pedals adding Trump’s request for debt limit curveball to GOP budget bill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) raised doubts Tuesday on whether there was sufficient GOP support for President Donald Trump’s push to lift the debt ceiling through the latest party-line spending proposal.

Thune told reporters that adding a provision to lift the borrowing cap would complicate the already narrow math for passing the $95 billion […] ...