Speaker Johnson: ‘Intention’ is to increase debt limit in massive Trump agenda bill

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that congressional Republicans plan to increase the nation’s borrowing limit as a part of a massive party-line bill that they are crafting that will encapsulate President-elect Trump’s legislative agenda.

The plan would address Trump’s concern about Democrats using the debt limit as a leverage point during his administration, as Republicans did with President Biden in 2023. The massive bill of Trump priorities that Republicans are planning will go through...