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Tensions certainly were running high in the hours preceding the budget deal to prevent the US breaching the debt ceiling, and no-one was feeling more enraged by Tim Sloan.
Ted Cruz, the spokesman for a small group of Tea Party-backed politicians who urged no compromise over Obamacare, and called on Republicans to let the United States default on its debts, "wipes his ass" on the paper, according to a furious Sloan.
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