Boehner Offers Loss of GOP Leverage in Fiscal Debate

Report: Boehner Caves Again, Offers Obama Year Delay on Debt Limit

House Speaker John Boehner apparently broke from Republican Party principles yet again this weekend, this time with a reported agreement to give PresidentBarack Obama a full year-long free ride that would give up all GOP leverage until early 2014 on the debt ceiling.

“House Speaker John A. Boehner has offered to push any fight over the federal debt limit off for a year, a major concession that would deprive Republicans of leverage in the budget battle but is breathing new life into stalled talks over the year-end ‘fiscal cliff,’” the Washington Post reported late Sunday evening. “The offer came Friday, according to people in both parties familiar with the talks, as part of the latest effort by Boehner (R-Ohio) to strike a deal with President Obama to replace more than $500 billion in painful deficit-reduction measures set to take effect in January.”

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