DORAL, Fla. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling instead of including it in the GOP's reconciliation package, which Republicans hope to pass in a party-line vote.

“No final decision yet, but part of the decision matrix is that we're looking at the pros and cons of those various angles,” Johnson said when asked if he has decided how to handle the thorny issue. “I was originally thinking that we would include it in the reconciliation process, because that's just a partisan exercise that doesn't require Democrat votes.”

The conversation — which took place at Trump National Doral, where House GOP lawmakers are gathering for their annual retreat — came as House Republicans are staring down a high-stakes stretch of legislating, including advancing President Trump’s wish list of policies, funding the government by next month’s deadline and raising the debt limit this summer to avoid an economic default, all with the slimmest of majorities.

Johnson shifted from his initial plan of including........

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