Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (R-NY) is in a weak position to cobble together his own debt ceiling plan as moderate Senate Republicans “are very comfortable” backing the House GOP’s conditions around raising the debt ceiling.

House Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act – estimated to save nearly $5 trillion over the next decade – on Wednesday without any Democrat support. The bill marked a significant development in the debt ceiling standoff between Democrats, who believe the ceiling should be raised without conditions, and Republicans, who want spending cuts in exchange for their help in increasing the limit.

Gooden told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle that Schumer is in “a bad spot” in putting together his own debt ceiling legislation in the Senate now that the House bill empowers his moderate GOP Senate colleagues.

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