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McCarthy using debt ceiling as bargaining chip for future spending cuts

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched a new effort to pressure President Biden to accept future cuts in government spending as a condition for raising the debt ceiling, which is required to pay for bills Congress has already racked up. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports.
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