Congressional GOP leaders are in a massive pickle as they weigh how to deal with a looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling. President Trump is pressuring Republicans to not allow Democrats to use the borrowing limit as a leverage point.

As for the fire-aid-for-debt-limit trade, GOP lawmakers who first raised the idea with Trump at recent Mar-a-Lago meetings said he was interested in the prospect at the time. That would mean making a debt limit hike part of a larger agreement around the bipartisan government funding talks.

Members of President Donald Trump’s own party could complicate his effort to avoid a standoff over extending the nation’s borrowing limit — which means a complication for Trump’s legislative plans overall as he manages big promises and small Republican congressional majorities.

President-elect Trump wants congressional Republicans to figure out a way to avoid a default on the national debt after venting his frustration with the Senate GOP over their failure to raise the debt limit as part of a government-funding package last month.

Forty-nine House Republicans and a dozen senators have never voted for a law to raise the debt limit, highlighting issues the small GOP majorities could face enacting their agenda.