As President Biden and Speaker prepare to sit down and talk about the debt limit for the first time in over three months on Tuesday, senators dug in with their support for the speaker's position that Republicans won't lift the borrowing cap without spending cuts. A group of 43 senators, led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, over the weekend threatened to block a deal on the debt ceiling that wasn't attached to 'substantive' budget cuts.The group, which includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is large enough to filibuster a clean debt ceiling bill in the - meaning such legislation would fail in both chambers of .
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