GOP rules out 'clean' debt ceiling bill

With White House senior adviser David Plouffe and congressional Democrats warning about the risks of not raising the debt ceiling, Republicans countered on Sunday that there's no way that President Barack Obama would get a clean bill without other concessions.

“The president just can’t waltz in and say we’re going to have a debt crisis if we don’t raise the debt limit, Congress,” Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican of the Senate Budget Committee said on CBS’s “Face the Nation," “and we’re not going to have any changes and I’m not going to support any changes.”

“He’s going to have to meet Congress halfway - really the American people halfway,” Sessions said.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), fresh off the budget talks, told donors this weekend that if Obama wants an up or down vote on the debt ceiling he’s not going to get it.

“The president says I want you to send me a clean bill,” Boehner said. “Well guess what, Mr. President, not a chance you’re going to get a clean bill.”

“There will not be an increase in the debt limit without something really, really big attached to it,” he continued in a clip of his remarks at a fundraiser that was played during “Face the Nation.”