Top leaders in both parties reached a long-sought deal on Saturday to avoid an unprecedented government default, announcing an agreement on a plan to lift the debt ceiling for two years and apply new caps on federal spending over the same duration.
To get there, negotiators had to iron out their differences on a small but crucial list of outstanding issues that had dogged the talks in recent days, including lower spending levels, new work requirements for social benefit programs and permitting reforms to expedite approval of energy infrastructure projects — three Republican demands that were opposed by most Democrats. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND EMILY BROOKS |
Negotiators for President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) struck an agreement late Saturday on government spending that will raise the debt ceiling and avert a looming default. The deal, which must still make its way through the House and Senate in the coming days, came together after days of intense negotiations to resolve disagreements over work requirements, spending caps and other issues. Here's a look at what's in the deal. |
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President Biden on Saturday hailed the tentative budget agreement struck between the White House and Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) team to avert a default and raise the debt ceiling. "The agreement represents a compromise, which means not everyone gets what they want," Biden said in a statement. "That's the responsibility of governing." |
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The list of candidates in the 2024 Republican presidential primary is steadily growing, much to the delight of former President Trump and his team, carrying echoes of 2016 when Trump exploited the fractured field to win the party's nomination.
Trump himself has welcomed each new candidate to the race, and his team believes a larger than expected field will weaken any effort to rally around a single alternative to the former president. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked up support for his presidential campaign from what might at first appear an unlikely place: people who had worked for former President Trump's campaign or administration or supported him. Multiple former Trump supporters are backing DeSantis's challenge to Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's faulty 2024 launch has raised the question of whether he's really the Republican best equipped to take on former President Trump in the primary. DeSantis announced his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces on Wednesday alongside Elon Musk, but the event was disrupted by technical glitches and largely mocked by critics afterward. |
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Pennsylvania and national Republicans are breathing easy after state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) surprised many by announcing that he will forego a run for Sen. Bob Casey's (D-Pa.) seat and support whomever the eventual nominee is. Mastriano made the announcement after days of speculation that he would jump into the primary race and make life difficult for national Republicans. Last November, he lost to Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) by nearly 15 points in the gubernatorial race, which the GOP establishment viewed as proof that the hard-right lawmaker is not viable in a statewide general election. |
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The Texas House on Saturday voted to impeach embattled state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). The vote was 121-23, with two present but not voting, and three who were absent from the chamber. He will be suspended from office pending a trial in the Senate. The impeachment represents a sudden reversal for Paxton, who has twice cruised to reelection despite being under active federal indictment. |
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) decried his impeachment by the GOP-led Texas House on Saturday as a "politically motivated sham." "The ugly spectacle in the Texas House today confirmed the outrageous impeachment plot against me was never meant to be fair or just," Paxton said in a statement posted to Twitter. "It was a politically motivated sham from the beginning." |
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OPINION | Media coverage of the current debt ceiling debate in Washington is not entirely false, but it is often not entirely accurate, either. While lamentations such as "Social Security payments won't go out!" may have a shred of technical truth to them, all that wailing and gnashing of teeth is probably a waste of time. The truth is not nearly as cut-and-dry as some would have us think. Whether the sort-of-correct factual allegations are the result of political scaremongering, poor journalism, or a combination of the two probably varies from outlet to outlet. |
OPINION | As the annual appropriations season looms in Washington, the debate over America's continued financial support for Ukraine's defense against invader Russia will be contentious. Some Republicans are raising objections due to our runaway national debt, as well as fears over repeating the debacle of taxpayer dollars wasted or stolen in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last two decades.
But concerns over fiscal prudence aside, some on the right also harbor a lingering affection for what they see as a bastion of "traditional values" in Russia.
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BY MARY CLARE JALONICK AND KEVIN FREKING |
After weeks of negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have announced an " agreement in principle " to raise the nation's debt ceiling and avoid a potentially catastrophic default.
The agreement includes spending cuts demanded by Republicans, but it is short of the reductions in the sweeping legislation passed by the Republican-led House last month. |
Details are trickling out about the accord that could avert a default on the national debt. Here's what to know. |
Biden's team is seeking to bolster Harris amid renewed questions on his age as he seeks reelection. |
Gretchen Whitmer spent years toiling as a state legislator in the minority party. Now that the second-term governor is atop a government controlled by fellow Democrats, she is a woman in a hurry. |
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