Contours of debt limit deal start to take shape
Yellen said could hit as early as June 1, negotiators are attempting to reach a framework for a deal by Sunday, when President Joe Biden returns from a trip to the G-7 summit in Japan.
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Tighter TANF requirements may be ripe for debt limit accord
The number of families receiving benefits dropped by over 50 percent during that time, however, from around 2.1 million to less than 1 million, according to Department of Health and Human Services data
Party leaders optimistic as debt limit negotiators get to work
Lawmakers are signaling they could adjust those plans to ensure they pass a bill reflecting a potential deal before June 1, when Treasury Secretary Janet L.
Earmarks increase in popularity, slightly, among GOP senators
However, the odds of disappointment are much greater for senators: appropriations leaders in both chambers have agreed to cap total earmarked dollars at 1 percent of overall discretionary spending.
Will 2024 be a personality contest or a policy debate?
Trying to make voters’ top issue, inflation, not the No. 1 issue is usually not a winning strategy. This signals the Biden team believes they can take inflation off the table by next year.
Recess starting to feel distant as debt limit deadline nears
The federal government is expected to run out of enough funds to pay all its bills on time as soon as June 1. Senate Majority Whip Richard J.
House Republican deficit plan seen as shift in thinking on China
Yellen has said the U.S. could default on its debt as early as June 1 unless lawmakers lift the $31.4 trillion ceiling. Rep.
Debt limit talks pared down to proxies for Biden, McCarthy
Yellen reiterated this week that the government could hit the "x date" when it no longer has enough funds to pay all its bills on time as soon as June 1.
Supreme Court to decide case on South Carolina congressional map
Republican-controlled legislature appealed the case, arguing in one of their briefs to the Supreme Court that the panel "nowhere mentioned other facts demonstrating that politics more readily explains District 1
Parties scramble for deal on debt limit, budget
the pressure on, reiterating in a letter to lawmakers Monday that the government could run out of cash and "extraordinary measures" used to stay under the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as soon as June 1.
Debt crisis: Biden should seek a 14th Amendment legal ruling. Trump just showed why
Not a single option guarantees the country doesn’t default on or around June 1. None would ensure a smooth path toward an outcome.
White House meeting delayed amid staff talks on budget, debt
"If these were staff meetings happening on Feb. 1, I’d call them productive," he said.
When is it too late to run for Senate?
Rick Scott, who won his initial Senate race in 2018 by less than two-tenths of 1 percent.Â
After a year of organizing, staff union leaders look ahead to collective bargaining
six House Democrat offices that have formed unions, plus the seven others that have petitioned to hold union elections and any other staffers looking to organize their corners of Capitol Hill — turned 1
Is former battleground North Carolina becoming a Florida clone?
Cooper, no doubt exhausted by constant sparring with the legislature that has worked to diminish the powers of his office from Day 1, is term-limited.
House panel moves to block Biden student loan forgiveness plan
"We didn’t hear any concern about equity when the $1.9 trillion Trump tax cut passed [and] 80 percent went to the top 1 percent and corporations," said Rep.
NDAA on hold while Congress grapples with debt limit
But that schedule coincided with ongoing leadership negotiations ahead of a June 1 deadline to lift the debt ceiling.
Biden blasts debt limit plan in New York district the GOP flipped
The NRCC announced a five-figure ad campaign targeting 35 vulnerable Democrats, while House Majority Forward is moving forward with a $1 million digital, research and messaging campaign criticizing Republicans
Bipartisan interest in new deposit insurance cap, but for whom?
Uninsured deposits are held in a small share of accounts but can be a large proportion of banks’ funding, particularly among the largest 10 percent and largest 1 percent of banks by asset size, the agency
No debt deal, but Biden, Hill leaders agree to meet again
Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy didn’t appear to get any closer to agreement on how to raise the debt ceiling after a roughly hourlong meeting Tuesday afternoon, which was their first since Feb. 1.