WASHINGTON — Tim Pawlenty on Friday joined the Jim DeMint wing of the Republican Party in the debt ceiling debate. Sort of.
Pawlenty argued in multiple TV interviews against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to hand over primary responsibility of raising the debt ceiling to the president in exchange for no tax increases, saying there has to be structural change to change the federal government’s spending patterns.
“It’s a Band-Aid on a broken bone,” Pawlenty said of McConnell’s plan in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “It doesn’t solve the problem … I don’t like it.”
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