The Senate approved the measure late Thursday night after the House passed it in yet another late session the night before.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor. Underestimated from the start, the Republican was never taken too seriously by the Washington establishment. But with House passage of the debt ceiling and the budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden, the emergent speaker proved naysayers otherwise.
Biden, wife Jill and other family members prayed for Beau Biden during the Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked strenuously Tuesday to sell fellow Republicans on the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden and win approval in time to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.
The Republican speaker gathered top allies behind closed doors at the Capitol as negotiators pushed for a deal.
Lawmakers are tentatively not expected back at work until Tuesday, just two days from when the U.S. could start running out of cash to pay its bills.
It is unclear when negotiations would resume, though talks could pick up again over the weekend.
The F-16 training is the latest shift by the Biden administration as it moves to arm Ukraine with more advanced and lethal weaponry.
About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say they want any increase in the debt limit to be coupled with terms for reducing the federal budget deficit.
Negotiators from the White House labored Thursday over the U.S. debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's emissaries at the Capitol.
The S&P 500 climbed 1.2%, with much of the gain coming after President Joe Biden said he's confident "America will not default."
Three weeks since launching his reelection campaign, he is confronting problems in his day job that defy easy solutions.
Staff-level negotiators resumed talks Saturday, and they're considering clawing back some $30 billion in unused COVID-19 funds.
Migrants hunched over cellphones trying to access the appointment app that is a centerpiece of new asylum measures.
Debt limit fight: Biden meeting with Congress leaders put off until next week as staff talks proceed
The White House said staff would continue to hold discussions, and the delay was billed as a sign of positive exchanges.
Migrants rushed across the border Thursday in hopes of entering the U.S. before the asylum restrictions are lifted.
"To go through this every couple of years is tremendously damaging," she said.
It's an approach that pairs beefed-up enforcement with expanded legal pathways and diplomacy.
Most U.S. adults have downbeat feelings about Biden's economic leadership, as high inflation overshadows a strong jobs market.
The White House Correspondents' Association dinner took a solemn tone amid what many see as attacks on press freedom around the globe.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy surprised Washington when he united raucous House Republicans to pass a sweeping debt ceiling package. So far, the White House is rejecting the GOP proposal for steep spending reductions as a condition for raising the debt limit. It's the first act in what is expected to be a long summer battle.
Virtual events from a basement room in his Delaware home and avoiding travel for months at a stretch won't cut it this time.
He pledged to pass legislation to raise the U.S. debt ceiling — but only on condition of capping future federal spending increases at 1%.
President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings.
A majority of Americans support raising taxes on the nation's highest earners to keep Medicare running as is.