Two Democrats might challenge Donna Edwards (Rep, D-MD-4)

It was a battle of neighbors as Rep. Donna Edwards ripped into House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on Thursday at a whip meeting just before Democrats sat down with President Barack Obama to discuss a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

The two Maryland Democrats don’t see eye-to-eye on a potential deal, and tensions flared, sources told POLITICO’s Huddle.

Depending on who you talk to, Hoyer was either equivocating on the question of whether entitlement changes should be part of a big deficit-reduction/debt-limit increase measure or simply arguing that Democrats need to win independents in the next election, but whatever he said at a Democratic whip meeting before the White House session did not sit well with Edwards

Edwards tore into Hoyer, witnesses said. She told the leader in no uncertain terms that Democrats had to be able to trust that he and Pelosi would have the same message at the White House meeting: No cuts to Medicare or Social Security....