McCarthy tossed in the cauldron - Politico

The intense jockeying over the future leadership of House Republicans collided headlong Thursday with an earlier-than-expected November deadline to raise the debt ceiling — a volatile mix that will be on Speaker John Boehner and the candidates vying to lead the GOP conference to defuse.

Over the next 13 weeks, Congress will need to figure out how to increase the nation’s borrowing limit, prevent a government shutdown, and keep money flowing to highway projects. Any one of those issues would an enormous lift; now all three will fall on a House Republican Conference in flux, with a new speaker, majority leader and majority whip expected to be elected next week but not take over until November.

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