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Senators eye Ukraine aid bills as avenue to increase DOD budget
In fiscal 2025, the cap would be $895 billion, a 1 percent increase from fiscal 2024.
Meet the House members who voted against the debt limit deal
A bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit through Jan. 1, 2025, and cut spending by at least $1.5 trillion passed the House with a coalition of Republican and Democratic votes built from the center out
Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate
The bill would suspend the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, pushing it past the November 2024 elections. The debt limit was last raised in December 2021 to $31.4 trillion.
House and Senate wrangle over student loans
The legislation codifies what Biden had already proposed: ending the freeze on loan payments by Sept. 1.
Cicilline signing off after years of fighting for progressive causes
The seven-term Democrat from Rhode Island’s 1st District announced a little more than three months ago that he’d be leaving Congress effective June 1 to become president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation
Hawks worry about defense caps in debt limit deal
In fiscal 2025, defense spending would be capped at $895 billion, just a 1 percent increase from the previous year.
Who is Rep. Thomas Massie, the key debt limit supporter?
Massie said he supported a "redeeming portion" of the debt agreement that would implement a 1 percent cut to both defense spending and nondefense spending if all 12 appropriations bills are not signed
Bipartisan debt limit package unveiled as clock ticks toward ‘x date’
That’s just $1 billion lower than the comparable figure this current fiscal year, officials said.
Debt limit deal appears close as negotiators keep working
While the deadline shift from June 1 to June 5 doesn’t change negotiators’ urgency, it could help them get a bill through both chambers of Congress before the "x date."
Yellen: Treasury to have ‘insufficient resources’ by June 5
She had previously warned lawmakers that the department’s funds could run too low as soon as June 1, so the update offered slightly more breathing room as McCarthy and the White House work to negotiate
Parties moving closer on debt ceiling deal as talks drag on
But spending would grow just 1 percent the following year, in line with the GOP bill. Talks remained fluid as negotiators worked into the night Thursday.
Supreme Court ruling will force changes to ‘waters of US’ rule
However, the justices were divided 5-4 when determining a new test to replace ones put forward in 2006 by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia in the 4-1-4 ruling on Rapanos v. United States.
No longer a ‘broken record,’ White House throws a few elbows with debt messaging
That changed this week as the country careened toward a federal debt default that could occur, shy of a deal, on or around June 1. Without naming Rep.
DeSantis vs. Trump: What if this political David cannot slay the Trump Goliath?
A launch with three missteps: 1. He’s leaning into the ’weird.’ 2. He’s doubling down on being the candidate who needs a safe space," former Florida GOP Rep. David Jolly tweeted this week. "3.
Leadership dynamics explain why there’s still no debt limit deal
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned if lawmakers don’t act before June 1 her department may run out of cash and accounting maneuvers needed to pay all government debt obligations.
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At the Races: Survey says what?
Democrats may have cheered Wednesday when Monmouth University released a poll with the headline “Clean debt deal preferred by 2-to-1.”
Debt limit talks back on, this time with change of venue
Their bill, which passed the House last month, would then cap spending growth at 1 percent for several following years.
In play to GOP base, House votes to block student loan relief
Among Black respondents, the number was nearly 1 in 4. "Congress needs to help fix this damaged economy which gets more unequal and inequitable every single day," said Rep. Maxwell Frost, D.-Fla.
Wide gulf between debt limit negotiators as time grows short
The precarious nature of negotiations has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worried about their ability to lift the debt limit before June 1, when the Treasury Department expects it may run out of cash