Kevin McCarthy faces debt-limit dilemma as House GOP ratchets up demands amid speaker bid

House Republicans are plotting tactics for their new majority, with many zeroing in on an issue with enormous economic implications: Raising the nation’s borrowing limit, and pictured, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on November 29, at the White House in Washington.

House Republicans are plotting tactics for their new majority and weighing how to use their leverage to enact a laundry list of demands, with many zeroing in on an issue with enormous economic implications: Raising the nation's borrowing limit.

It's an issue confronting House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is rounding up the votes to win the House speaker race and facing pressure from some of his colleagues to more forcefully detail how he plans to handle the sensitive topic before they decide whether to support him on January 3 for the most powerful position in Congress.

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CNN's Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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