(The Hill) — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) opened the door to voting to raise the debt ceiling on Monday — in the extraordinarily unlikely instance that it’s tied to a repeal of President Obama’s healthcare law.

Bachmann, the Republican presidential candidate who’s been a dogged opponent of raising the debt limit, had a caveat that could conceivably win her support.

“They’d have to cut an enormous amount, including they would have to defund Obamacare,” she said on Fox News in response to a question about the circumstances under which she’d vote to raise the debt ceiling. “Because that’s the largest entitlement in the history of the country.”

Of course, that’s an incredibly unlikely proposition, and Bachmann acknowledged as much.

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