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File photo. (ABC News)(WASHINGTON) Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he opposes eliminating the debt ceiling, the financial limit on the federal government that could produce fierce clashes if the GOP wins back one or both chambers of Congress in November's midterm elections. "You have to increase the debt ceiling," Sanders, I-Vt., said on CNN's State of the Union. "But you keep it?" anchor Jake Tapper asked him. "Yes, yes," Sanders said. Those remarks come as Republicans forecast that they'll use negotiations over the debt ceiling to extract concessions from Democrats to cut spending a repeat of battles over the last decade starting with congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama. Kevin McCarthy, the current House GOP leader who would likely become speaker if the party retakes the chamber, has been advocating for using the debt ceiling to win leverage over Joe Biden's administration and Democra

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