Sad Boehner.
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Dropping their threat to crash the economy into the debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed to steep spending cuts, 199 members of the House GOP teamed with 89 Democrats to pass a three-month suspension of the world’s most annoying ceiling despite getting nothing in return. Well, almost nothing: The bill included a provision that would withhold pay for lawmakers unless the Senate passes a budget before April 15. (America will surely be rooting for no budget.) Regardless, Democrats were gloating. “The president stared down the Republicans,” Chuck Schumer said. “They blinked.”
