Obama-Boehner Team Up One Last Time on Mega-Budget

GOP speaker teams up with Dems to push through Obama budget

Against the wishes of conservatives inside his own party, outgoing House Speaker John Boehner teamed up with Democrats to push through a two-year budget deal that will increase the debt ceiling by $80 billion and put off any other votes over the national debt until March 2017, after next year's presidential and congressional elections.

"The agreement isn't perfect by any means," Boehner said to reporters. "But the alternative was a clean debt ceiling increase without any additional support for our troops and without any entitlement reforms. So this is a good deal."

Not everyone agrees. AP spoke to several conservative leaning Republicans that were not happy:

"We can't stop it. He's in league with the Democrats," Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said of Boehner. "I mean I don't think there's anything you can do at this point."

But Massie also said "it's a long game" and conservatives were winning the war as they had forced Boehner to resign.

Paul Ryan, likely to receive his coronation as the handpicked establishment candidate to replace Boehner, had some harsh words for how the deal came together:

"I think this process stinks. This is not the way to do the people's business," Ryan said. "Under new management, we're not going to do the people's business this way."

Ryan will be officially introduced as the candidate to replace Boehner on Wednesday, the same day the vote on the budget is expected to be pushed through.

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