WASHINGTON − Just days before a possible default, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal late Saturday to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for caps on future ...
WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared to make ever-so-slight progress toward a ...
President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are set to meet for another round of debt ceiling talks this week, and a deal over raising the borrowing limit remains at a stalemate.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about U.S. tax & budget policy from a center-left perspective. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress on Monday that ...
WASHINGTON — Five months after he grabbed the gavel, this week marks the start of a defining challenge of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s two decades in elected office: whether he can strike a ...
Republicans control, if that is the right word, the House with 218 votes, a bare majority. Democrats hold 213 seats, with ...
The tone of the talks at the White House on Monday appeared to be more optimistic US President Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling ...
The package makes some inroads in curbing the nation’s debt as Republicans demanded, without rolling back Trump-era tax breaks as Biden wanted. To pass it, Biden and McCarthy counted on support ...
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WASHINGTON — A defiant House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday the debt ceiling standoff was “not my fault” as he sent Republican negotiators to the White House to finish out talks, but ...
President Joe Biden meets with congressional leaders on Nov. 29, 2022, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to discuss legislative priorities for the rest of the year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, ...