US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said he is confident a deal to raise the US government debt ceiling will be reached ... to be turned into a legislative text to be approved by Congress.

Just months later, McCarthy is facing a growing chorus of angry voices from that same far-right faction — and beyond — that not only threatenes to scuttle a nascent debt ceiling deal he and ...

US President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling ... review the text of any agreement prior to passage. That means the deal would ...

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached a tentative deal on raising the nation's $31.4 trillion debt limit, giving Congress time to pass it before June 5, when the ...

House conservatives hated the summer debt deal so much they ousted Kevin McCarthy for negotiating it ... beyond what’s explicitly written in the text. Democrats are irate to hear Johnson ...

The White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle on a deal to raise the debt ceiling ... that he anticipated the bill text would be publicly available ...

McCarthy said he expected to finish writing the bill Sunday and have a vote on the deal on Wednesday, May 31. The deal would suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling until January of 2025.

But the aftermath of the debt ceiling deal is coming into focus: The hard-right flank that helped put the speaker in power five months ago is not done with McCarthy yet. “I enjoy this conflict ...

such as keeping the government funded and raising the debt ceiling. Gaetz – who on Wednesday became Trump's nominee for attorney general – used the tool to call a vote on McCarthy's ...

After he was elected speaker on the 15th ballot, Kevin McCarthy promised that the U.S. House under Republican leadership would protect the national economy, saying that the party was committed to ...

WASHINGTON--Veering away from a default crisis, the House approved a debt ceiling and ... into the night to strike the deal with the White House, and for days McCarthy has worked to build support ...

McCarthy faces a hard-right flank that is likely to reject any deal, which has led some Democrats encouraging Biden to resist any compromise with the Republicans and simply raise the debt ceiling ...