Debt limit time crunch could test both parties
House Democrats are sending an early warning shot as the government’s borrowing window inches to a close: winning Democratic ...
Trump’s Treasury is running out of money fast. Why the ‘x date’ matters for markets.
The so-called “x date” — the point in the calendar when the U.S. Treasury will have exhausted all its emergency ...
Republicans reach ‘consensus’ on raising the debt limit with single, filibuster-proof bill
Senate Republicans had previously endorsed a two-track approach, with the second bill focusing just on renewing the 2017 Tax ...
Senate Republicans warm to hiking the debt limit in their sweeping party-line bill
If Republicans fail to get the votes on their own to lift the debt ceiling, with the deadline expected in August or September ...
Wyden: Democrats shouldn’t make Republicans job ‘any easier’ by helping them raise debt limit
Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) on Monday said Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans tackle the debt ceiling this Congress, after a ...
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For Once, a Debt Ceiling Fight May Be Democrats’ Best Option
That means the Freedom Caucus, sworn not to raise the debt, will have to blow the debt ceiling on a scale that will give cardiac arrest even in the red states. At this point, Democratic votes ...
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Cutting Medicaid and raising the debt limit: Mike Johnson struggles to get Republicans behind Trump’s budget
The Senate GOP leader is also hesitant about raising the debt ceiling through the reconciliation process. “We're planning to proceed. But, you know, obviously we are interested in and hoping to ...
U.S. Debt-Limit Deadline Likely This Summer—or Maybe Sooner
The projection, the first official estimate of the so-called X date, puts lawmakers on the clock to figure out how and when ...