President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a much-awaited budget detail, averting a potentially catastrophic U.S. default just days ahead of a June 5 deadline. Both sides are expected to point to…
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Biden brushes off Republicans’ defense spending concerns over debt ceiling deal, suggests deal could be made
President Joe Biden on Monday responded to Republican criticism of the defense spending included in the deal he reached with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend to avert a potentially catastrophic default in the…
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The Texas House of Representatives on Monday delivered articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton to the state Senate. The delivery came after the GOP-led House named the board of managers – comprising five…
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Republican Rep. Rosendale to vote against $4 trillion debt ceiling deal: ‘Insult to the American people’
Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, released a statement Sunday evening signaling he would vote against the ‘Fiscal Responsibility Act,’ the debt ceiling deal released to the public earlier in the day by House…
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The highly-anticipated debt ceiling package House Republicans and President Biden announced on Sunday includes a provision fast-tracking a massive 303-mile West Virginia-to-Virginia natural gas pipeline project for approval. The unexpected carveout green-lighting the billion-dollar Mountain…
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Washington leaders responded on Sunday to the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act, a deal reached between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Biden to evade defaulting on the country’s financial obligations. Both McCarthy and Biden…
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An agreement in principle was reached Saturday between House Republican leaders and the White House that would prevent the government from breaching debt ceiling and failing to meet all its obligations. The deal would claw…
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz took to social media Saturday to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ahead of a vote in the state House to impeach him, insisting Paxton has been the ‘strongest conservative AG’…
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DeSantis says he would welcome bill to abolish ‘corrupt’ IRS: ‘We need something totally different’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would be ‘welcoming’ of a measure from Congress to defund the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) if he’s elected president next year. The comments from DeSantis, who officially announced this…
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Judge: School district can bar student from wearing Mexican and American flag sash at graduation
A federal judge ruled Friday that a rural Colorado school district can bar a high school student from wearing a Mexican and American flag sash at her graduation this weekend after the student sued the…