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House Republicans delayed by at least a day a floor vote on their package to raise the debt ceiling, the latest challenge facing Speaker John Boehner and GOP leaders as they try to avoid a default on the nation’s debt. 
  
 The decision to move the vote to Thursday or beyond came after the Congressional Budget Office reported late Tuesday night that the package Boehner crafted would only reduce deficits by $850 billion, $150 billion short of the speaker’s goal of $ 1 trillion in budget and spending cuts. 
  
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 House Republican leadership aides were looking for ways to revise the bill to address the shortfall. This could include either lowering the borrowing authority Congress approves, or recommending additional spending cuts. GOP aides said the first option is more likely. The United States is projected to default on its debt Aug. 2, according to the Treasury Department. 
  
 Tuesday’s evening drama was the latest challenge facing Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as they push toward what’s considered the year’s biggest vote. 
  
 Some House Republicans are already skittish about leadership claims on budget savings following a spring battle over the 2011 budget. CBO found those savings were smaller than claimed by leadership. 
  
 Even leading up to Tuesday night’s decision to delay the vote by a day, Boehner and other GOP leaders engaged in a furious last-minute lobbying effort inside and outside the Capitol to pass their debt ceiling package. But the outcome of that vote and its timing remains far from certain, according to Republican lawmakers and aides. 
  
 With little or no Democratic support for the GOP plan, Boehner and his top lieutenants had to battle their own party on two fronts. 
  
 First, Boehner was hauling members who are undecided or leaning “no” into his Capitol suite for one-on-one meetings, using the time-honored tradition of his office to twist arms and win votes. Boehner had “made progress,” but the CBO scores threw all that progress into doubt. 
  
 And outside the Capitol, the top Republican leaders engaged in a PR campaign to win over conservative interest groups and opinion-makers. 
  
 The Republican leadership has privately reached out to conservative TV personalities like Sean Hannity and Brit Hume, and Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, National Review’s Kate O’Beirne, Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard, David Brooks of The New York Times, George Will, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and groups such as The Heritage Foundation, among others, have all heard from Republican leadership, including Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam of Illinois. And even former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), the chairman of FreedomWorks and a tea party favorite, got a call from GOP leaders. ||||| The news from the CBO alarmed conservatives, who were already balking at what they considered timid spending reductions. It also meant Boehner’s bill would not meet his own demand that the cuts exceed the size of the $900 billion debt-limit increase. 
  
 House Republicans were racing Tuesday night to rewrite portions of the measure to bring the numbers into line. The vote could now come Thursday. 
  
 As Boehner (R-Ohio) pressed toward a cliffhanger vote in the House, President Obama signaled that he would veto the measure because it would force another battle over the debt limit early next year. Meanwhile, Reid (D-Nev.) pronounced the proposal “dead on arrival” in the Senate, where Democrats were struggling to rally votes for their own plan to raise the debt limit by $2.7 trillion — enough additional borrowing authority to cover the nation’s bills into 2013. 
  
 The legislative maneuvering played out against a backdrop of public outrage, as the Capitol switchboard became jammed and visitors swamped congressional Web sites, apparently heeding a call Obama made Monday in a prime-time national address for Americans to contact their representatives in Congress. 
  
 At the height of the deluge, the Capitol was receiving 40,000 calls per hour — twice as many as normal. Some people encouraged lawmakers to stand firm, others demanded a resolution to the weeks-long stalemate that threatens to undermine the sputtering U.S. recovery and damage the nation’s global standing. Still others were simply worried that the impasse could prevent their Social Security checks from arriving on time. 
  
 Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for Sen. Tom Harkin, said the Iowa Democrat’s office had received more than 700 e-mails and letters overnight, the majority of which “expressed frustration with the debt process and said that we should reach a compromise.” 
  
 The national debt has already hit the $14.3 trillion legal limit. Unless Congress acts by next Tuesday, Treasury officials say they could begin running short of cash for federal health-care and retirement benefits, military salaries and payments due investors, potentially throwing the U.S. government into default for the first time. Even if a default is avoided, credit-rating companies are threatening to downgrade the nation’s AAA rating, a move that could drive up interest rates for governments at all levels, as well as for ordinary Americans. Some Republicans have challenged the Treasury’s warnings and said the economic fallout would be limited. |||||

John Boehner and Harry Reid are frantically scrambling to cobble together support for their dueling debt plans after Boehner was forced to delay a House floor vote on his proposal until tomorrow ... or beyond. The delay was a direct result of the CBO's report that Boehner's package falls short—it will only save $850 billion, not $1 trillion—but the speaker is also dealing with the fact that, by some estimates, 40 to 50 of his fellow GOP lawmakers are "no" votes or undecided. He has yet to solidify the 217 "yes" votes he needs, and has been calling members who oppose him into his office for one-on-ones, Politico reports. At least two prominent conservative groups are also against the plan, although the US Chamber of Commerce is for it. Aides to leading House Republicans are trying to find ways to address the $150 billion shortfall, with the most likely option being to lower the borrowing authority Congress approves. Meanwhile, Boehner and his fellow leaders are lobbying both inside and outside the Capitol for support, reaching out to everyone from Sean Hannity to David Brooks to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. They're arguing that Reid will be forced to pass the House plan when his plan fails in the Senate, sources say, and that Obama will be forced to sign it despite his veto threat. Reid is struggling to get the votes he needs for the Democratic plan—he'll likely need Republican support, the Washington Post reports, noting that at this point both alternatives "appear doomed without significant bipartisan modifications."