Utah's two Republican senators had different reactions to the debt ceiling deal finalized over the weekend, with Sen. Mitt Romney saying he supports the agreement while Sen. Mike Lee has expressed his displeasure with the deal in multiple tweets.
A spokesman for Lee told the Deseret News on Monday that the senator is "extremely disappointed with what emerged from the negotiations and his tweets convey that. I expect he'll have much more to say in coming days."released Monday, Romney praised some of the reforms included in the agreement, which was finalized late Saturday, while saying he wished negotiators had addressed entitlement reform.
"While I would have preferred to see an agreement that also addressed entitlements, this represents a good-faith bipartisan compromise, and I'm hopeful the House and Senate will pass it into law in the coming days." At a press conference Sunday, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, one of the chief negotiators for House Republicans,the final deal represents a "fundamental shift in the spending trajectory in Washington." He called the negotiations "intense" and "quite challenging."
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