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Senate passes debt limit bill; IRS funding to be cut by more than $20 billion

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer pushed through legislation on Thursday waiving the nation's debt limit until January 2025, overcoming obstacles put up by defense hawks, deficit hardliners, and even environmentalist Democrats.

June 1, 2023

Senate races to pass debt-limit deal to avoid first-ever default

The Senate was poised to pass the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement struck by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as early as Thursday night, preparing to send it to Mr. Biden's desk just days before a first-ever default on the nation's bills was to take place.

June 1, 2023

Biden’s greenlighting of fossil fuel pipeline may weaken Democrats’ ability to boost clean energy

The White House has long used a stalled fossil fuel pipeline as a bargaining chip with Republicans in the administration's efforts to attract GOP support for supercharging renewables by accelerating the nation's energy permitting laws.

June 1, 2023

Biden-McCarthy debt limit deal to face new obstacles in Senate as looming deadline closes in

The Senate is struggling to reach an arrangement to allow for swift passage of the Biden-McCarthy debt limit deal before next week's default deadline.

May 31, 2023

Biden DOJ sues family coal business of GOP challenger to Sen. Joe Manchin

The Department of Justice filed a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit Wednesday against the coal empire run by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican running for U.S. Senate.

May 31, 2023

Climate activists target Schumer, top Biden energy official over West Virginia pipeline

The approval of West Virginia's Mountain Valley Pipeline included in the debt-limit deal by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is spurring action from climate protesters.

May 30, 2023

McConnell, Schumer urge swift passage of debt-limit deal as hardliners defect

Republican and Democratic Senate leaders on Tuesday praised the bipartisan debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, despite hardliners in both parties criticizing the agreement for having too many compromises.

May 30, 2023

Why liberals and climate activists are lashing out over debt limit deal’s energy policies

President Biden's Democratic allies and environmentalists are attacking his deal with House Republicans to suspend the debt ceiling over the legislation's inclusion of provisions they fear undercut the administration's green energy agenda.

May 30, 2023

House GOP sells deal with Biden as restoring ‘fiscal sanity’ amid backlash from right

House Republicans are working overtime to lock down support among their conference for the debt limit agreement between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden as conservatives openly trash the bipartisan deal.

May 29, 2023

Ron DeSantis trashes McCarthy-Biden debt limit deal, says it puts U.S. ‘careening toward bankruptcy’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday condemned the bipartisan deal struck over the weekend between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden to lift the nation's debt ceiling as "totally inadequate" when it comes to slashing federal spending.

May 29, 2023

Biden mentions personal loss in Memorial Day address honoring fallen service members

President Biden marked Memorial Day on Monday with an address and wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where the commander in chief paid homage to the men and women "who sacrificed everything to keep democracy safe and secure."

May 29, 2023

Sen. Lindsey Graham calls Russian arrest warrant over Ukraine comments ‘a badge of honor’

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday welcomed the Russian Interior Ministry's arrest warrant for him over his remarks that U.S. military aid to Ukraine in its war against Moscow is "the best money we've ever spent."

May 29, 2023

Biden’s lofty EV goals face big barriers as federal funds flow to new chargers

The Biden administration can't say how much progress, if any, it is making on a $5 billion federal initiative to build new EV chargers along America's sprawling interstate highway system, according to several government agencies.

May 29, 2023

‘Important step forward’: Biden denies the GOP got much in debt deal

President Biden on Sunday praised the bipartisan deal struck with House Republicans to lift the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts, but doubled down in his refusal to say that he gave away anything significant in the negotiations.

May 28, 2023

Ronna McDaniel, Republican Party chair, urges RNC unity as GOP presidential race heats up

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel doubled down Sunday on her calls for party unity as more GOP contenders throw their hats into the ring for the 2024 presidential nomination.

May 28, 2023

House Democrat says ‘really unfortunate’ Biden allowed changes to food stamps in debt limit deal

Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal aired her grievances Sunday over the agreement reached between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the White House, saying she was disappointed President Biden allowed changes to government benefits like food stamps.

May 28, 2023

Pushback from all sides: Biden, McCarthy debt limit deal trashed by left and right

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's deal to hike the debt limit until after the 2024 elections has Republicans and Democrats up in arms.

May 28, 2023

A ‘win for the entire country,’ Republicans tout energy-permit rules in debt limit deal

House Republicans are highlighting in their debt limit deal with the White House provisions that would change the country's decades-old environmental laws by ending bureaucratic logjams that stall energy projects for years.

May 28, 2023

McCarthy sells debt limit deal as conservatives fume: ‘We finally were able to cut spending’

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took to the airwaves on Sunday to make the case for his debt limit deal with the White House to avoid default, as some conservatives bemoaned that the California Republican made concessions.

May 28, 2023

Demonstrators target emergency meeting of U.N. climate change group

A conservative activist group is taking its anti-ESG advocacy Thursday to the doorsteps of businesses in New York that are part of a U.N. coalition of insurance companies dedicated to ending fossil fuel emissions by 2050.

May 25, 2023