The Hill News

A conservative tax group is keeping pressure on lawmakers to couple any vote to increase the debt limit with major spending cuts by asking them to sign a pledge to do just that.

Americans for Tax Reform, a group advocating a single national flat tax run by conservative activist Grover Norquist, has drafted the pledge and plans on sending it to every lawmaker.

The pledge states, "I promise to my constituents not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless it is preceded or accompanied by significant cuts in federal spending."

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