Republican Senator: GOP Should Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage As Leverage For Medicare Cuts

Republican Senator: GOP Should Hold Debt Ceiling Hostage As Leverage For Medicare Cuts: On Sunday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) conceded that Democrats have won the debate on raising taxes on the richest Americans and said that he would likely vote to increase rates on the top 2 percent of Americans in order to shift the debate to cutting entitlement programs and improve the GOP’s leverage in the debate [...]/p