In a 314-117 majority vote on Wednesday night, the House approved a bill to suspend the federal debt ceiling through January of 2025. The vote took place just days before the June 5 deadline for the government to free up funds lest the United States be unable to pay off …
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President Joe Biden and the Republican Party at loggerheads in the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations as the GOP insists on steep spending cuts and work requirements for aid recipients. Although both Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sounded hopeful there was a deal to be made just last week, …
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As a battle over the debt ceiling looms large in Washington, Sen. Ted Cruz said that President Joe Biden is “behaving like a terrorist” by not negotiating with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Instead of engaging in negotiations with Republicans, the president has insisted that Congress pass a bill to unconditionally …
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Looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, Sen. Bernie Sanders accused many in the Republican Party’s leadership of not believing in democracy. “We live in a nation where you have a major political party, the Republican Party, where many, not all, but many of their leadership doesn’t even believe in …
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Defund the government. It’s way too “woke.” That’s the message from Russell Vought — a hard-right policy wonk and once a senior official in Donald Trump’s administration— who has been leading a behind-the-scenes charge among congressional Republicans. He’s “sprinting around Washington, spreading the gospel of budgetary anti-wokeism, ” as one …
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