It’s hard to get support for a measure to keep the govt running, by paying off the debt of money THEY ALREADY SPENT, when a large number of the ‘cats(R) you are a trying to herd’, want to wreck the government.

 House GOP leaders’ furious scramble to secure the support needed to pass a debt limit bill is not going well.

On Tuesday evening, the prognosis for the package was looking even worse than the shaky ground it stood on before lawmakers left Washington last week.

A small but consequential number of GOP lawmakers on Tuesday said they intend to vote against the party’s debt limit package if it hits the floor without substantial changes — changes Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is vowing not to make as he aims to pass the bill this week.