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Many people in Washington were surprised when May’s debt ceiling negotiations quickly narrowed down to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, his lieutenants and top White House aides. Not Sen. Kyrsten Sinema…

The Senate passed the bipartisan debt deal Thursday night, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk days before the default deadline and capping off months of melodrama. The upper chamber…

Congress enshrined a debt-limit deal late Thursday that makes modest progress toward Republicans’ goals of cutting spending, streamlining red tape and attaching more work requirements to federal safety-net programs. Democrats…

The Senate reached a deal to vote Thursday evening on the bipartisan debt ceiling and budget agreement, locking in plans to send the bill to the president’s desk well before…

Republican Gov. Jim Justice was once identified as the only billionaire in West Virginia, but the business empire he built on coal has shrunk to a small number of companies…

In the days after striking a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, White House officials sought to downplay what they privately considered to be…

Senate leaders are scrambling to cut a deal to vote quickly on the debt bill, hoping to finish work before the weekend and well before the June 5 default deadline.…

Elizabeth Warren doesn’t like much at all about the deal to raise the debt ceiling. The only reason she might vote for it is hardly an endorsement: default would be…

The House passed H.R. 3746 (118), sending it to the Senate with less than six days until a June 5 default deadline. The vote united a swath of Republicans and…

JR Majewski, a pro-Trump Republican accused of misrepresenting his military record, is ending his comeback bid. It marks a dramatic end for the Republican candidate who lost a competitive Ohio…