GOP Trip to OECD Off for Now as House Races on Debt Bill

May 31, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

House Ways and Means Committee members won’t be headed to Paris for meetings at OECD headquarters this week, as lawmakers expect a late Wednesday night of votes to pass the debt-limit bill.

“It was called off late last night,” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) said Wednesday. It’s not clear if the trip would be rescheduled at a later time.

A request to the committee for comment Wednesday on the status of the trip went unreturned.

The delegation was to be led by Ways and Means chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), and the group intended to make a case for pushing back ...

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