#House GOP setting up election-year debt limit fight

#House GOP setting up election-year debt limit fight

House Republicans could be setting up another fight over the debt limit — this time, just months before the 2024 presidential election. A sweeping, 320-page bill they unveiled this week would raise the debt ceiling, which caps how much money the Treasury can borrow to pay the country’s bills, through the end of next March…

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#Greene vs Green: silencing sparks round of GOP infighting

#Greene vs Green: silencing sparks round of GOP infighting

Comments from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) this week again presented a challenge to GOP leadership after she was silenced Wednesday following an exchange with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in which she accused him of being a liar. Greene’s comments pushed Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee to move to take down her…

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#Manchin slams Biden for ‘deficiency of leadership,’ applauds McCarthy debt limit plan 

#Manchin slams Biden for ‘deficiency of leadership,’ applauds McCarthy debt limit plan 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who faces reelection in a Republican-leaning state, on Thursday slammed President Biden for showing “a deficiency of leadership” on a potential national default and applauded Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for proposing a plan to raise the debt limit.   Manchin, who has feuded with the Biden administration over implementation of the…

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#McCarthy tries to wrangle Republicans on debt limit bill

#McCarthy tries to wrangle Republicans on debt limit bill

Editor’s note: President Biden has said he refuses to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for debt limit negotiations until Republicans release a 10-year budget proposal. A previous version of this story contained incorrect information. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday laid out his opening salvo for a go-it-alone debt limit increase bill he hopes…

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