Republican Senator Denounces GOP Plan To Use Debt Ceiling As Leverage To Gut Spending

Republican Senator Denounces GOP Plan To Use Debt Ceiling As Leverage To Gut Spending: During an interview with a local newspaper that was published on Tuesday, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) distanced herself from her party’s plan to use the fast-approaching debt ceiling as leverage to secure deep cuts in domestic spending. Murkowski is the first Republican to denounce Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker John Boehner’s [...]/p