More than a third of House Republicans have never supported a debt-ceiling hike that became law, a daunting obstacle as President-elect Donald Trump pushes Congress to quickly raise the federal borrowing limit.
Four dozen House Republicans have always voted against debit limit hikes that have been signed into law, while 33 new GOP lawmakers have never had to vote on hiking the nation’s borrowing authority, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of more than four decades of House votes.
The bloc of debt-limit skeptics and untested lawmakers could force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to seek support from Democrats, who aim ...