Ted Cruz’s Latest Stand Is Going to Infuriate Some Republicans and Many Democrats

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Charles DharapakAfter the GOP-led House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to increase the nation’s debt ceiling with no strings attached, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) vowed to seek out a 60-vote threshold when the Senate votes on the measure.

When the debt ceiling bill, passed in the House with the help of 28 Republicans, reaches the Senate on Wednesday, Cruz plans to object to the simple majority vote, the Texas senator’s office confirmed. This could very well mean a Cruz filibuster.

Here’s where his plan will certainly anger some of his Republican colleagues.

The 60-vote threshold will force some Republicans to either side with Democrats to increase the debt ceiling, or go back to the drawing board and push for meaningful spending cuts.

Hours before the House vote on Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner admitted defeat on the debt ceiling. He voted in favor of the no-strings-attached increase.

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