Schumer Pressured To Cancel Recess Over Debt Ceiling

Axios reports:

A group of more than a dozen House Republicans is urging the Senate to cancel its upcoming recess in the absence of a debt ceiling bill, Axios has learned.

It reflects increasing anxiety among lawmakers about the impending fiscal cliff after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated a potential June 1 deadline in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday.

Key senators told Axios cancelling the recess is not out of the question. Driving the news: The 14 House Republicans wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a copy of which was obtained by Axios, that the Senate should remain in session next week rather than taking its planned recess until May 22.

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