More than a third of House Republicans never supported a debt-ceiling hike that became law — a daunting obstacle as Donald Trump pushes Congress to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Four dozen House Republicans always voted against debt-limit hikes signed into law, while 33 new Republicans never voted at all on raising the nation’s borrowing authority, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of more than four decades of House votes.
The bloc could force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to seek Democrats’ support, which creates another problem — they’ll aim to use the vote as leverage over tax policy if Johnson ...