Higgins votes against debt ceiling hike

U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Lafayette, voted against an increase in the federal limit Tuesday. The increase passed in the House and now moves to the Senate.
Higgins objected to the inclusion of $28.6 billion in disaster assistance in the bill increasing the debt limit.
“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s decision to pair hurricane recovery funds with a socialist agenda partisan effort to suspend the debt limit, in order to pave the way for [President Joe] Biden’s $3.5 trillion monstrosity bill, is unacceptable. This package in its current form will not pass the Senate and only further delays supplemental disaster assistance for South Louisiana."