Senate passes debt limit deal
The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.
By Josh Israel - June 02, 2023The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.
By Josh Israel - June 02, 2023The bill now moves to the Senate, where speedy action will be required before a potential U.S. default.
By Josh Israel - June 01, 2023A default by the U.S. government on its debts could affect 6 million jobs and trigger global economic chaos, but President Joe Biden has struck a compromise with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to prevent that.
By Oliver Willis - May 31, 2023The Florida Republican voted to suspend the debt ceiling and boost federal spending in 2018 under President Donald Trump.
By Emily Singer - May 30, 2023The House has passed a resolution that would cancel President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan.
By Emily Singer - May 25, 2023But so far zero have joined the Democrats' effort to make that happen.
By Josh Israel - May 25, 2023Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced a bill that would gut the 2022 bipartisan gun safety compromise law and other modest steps to curb gun violence.
By Josh Israel - May 19, 2023A federal grand jury indicted Santos on 13 criminal charges on May 10.
By Josh Israel - May 18, 2023Republican members of the House Oversight Committee declined to answer when asked if they had information that the president was directly involved in corruption or was implicated in illegal activity related to his family’s business deals.
By Oliver Willis - May 11, 2023Santos used campaign donations for personal expenses, including luxury designer clothes and to pay off his credit cards, according to the indictment.
By Associated Press - May 10, 2023Rep. George Santos (R-NY) and other Republicans claim it would not cut benefits, but the House GOP's debt limit bill requires spending cuts that could slash veterans' benefits and make it harder to access safety net programs.
By Josh Israel - May 04, 2023The organization Climate Power found the GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act would slash funding for clean energy projects that are projected to create tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2023The debt ceiling bill Republicans passed would result in a 22% funding cut across the board — without any carve-out for veterans programs.
By Emily Singer and Josh Israel - May 02, 2023House Republican leadership will only raise the debt ceiling if the Biden administration agrees to cut spending on safety net programs, but that doesn’t have widespread public support.
By Oliver Willis - May 01, 2023Sponsor Maria Elvira Salazar said the term 'is a woke invention of the neo-Marxist left.'
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2023The House GOP caucus has refused to offer a bill to raise the debt ceiling without demands for budget cuts.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2023House Republican leaders want to cut spending from the Inflation Reduction Act in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, despite a recent poll showing public support for it.
By Oliver Willis - April 20, 2023A bill proposed by Rep. Greg Steube that would ban some trans youth from playing sports is being considered in the House, although it is unlikely to be considered in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
By Will Fritz - April 19, 2023Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the House Judiciary Committee inquiry is a ‘transparent campaign to intimidate and attack’ him over his indictment of former President Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - April 12, 2023House Speaker Kevin McCarthy claims his caucus is ‘keeping our Commitment to America’.
By Josh Israel - April 11, 2023Republicans voted against an assault weapons ban and have advocated for safety net cuts.
By Oliver Willis - April 06, 2023The Union of Concerned Scientists calls wind ‘one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity.’
By Josh Israel - March 29, 2023Removing the agency that protects students’ civil rights and distributes federal education funds has received an increasing amount of Republican support in recent years, including from Donald Trump.
By Josh Israel - March 24, 2023President Biden ‘vetoed the bill because it jeopardizes the hard-earned life savings of cops, firefighters, teachers, and other workers,’ said the White House.
By Associated Press - March 21, 2023Republicans in Congress have been trying to kill the independent agency since its inception in 2010.
By Josh Israel - March 09, 2023Republicans in Congress have filed more than 30 federal bills to restrict reproductive choice.
By Josh Israel - March 06, 2023GOP representatives and senators are touting their support for the SPLC-designated hate group’s right-wing agenda.
By Josh Israel - March 03, 2023Despite polls showing popular support for the economic legislation passed last year, Rep. Andy Ogles and over 20 Republicans are seeking to reverse it completely.
By Josh Israel - March 03, 2023Republicans are trying to overturn a Labor Department regulation that allows retirement funds to consider environmental, social, and governance behaviors of the companies in which they invest.
By Josh Israel - March 01, 2023The House Oversight Committee chair’s comments about Beau Biden are the latest in the House Republicans’ search for dirt on the Biden family.
By Emily Singer - March 01, 2023