WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner announced Tuesday that the House will vote this week to increase the government’s borrowing cap without any add-ons demanded by Republicans.
The move amounted to a capitulation by Republicans to President Barack Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats who argued that the GOP should not attempt to use the must-pass increase in the so-called debt limit as leverage to extract concessions from the administration.
Boehner announced the plan after a poll of the Republican rank and file failed to show enough support for a strategy aimed at tying the raise in the debt limit to a plan to reverse a recently passed cut to military pensions.
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