WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared to make ever-so-slight progress toward a ...

President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are set to meet for another round of debt ceiling talks this week, and a deal over raising the borrowing limit remains at a stalemate.

Two weeks ago, I argued that implementing this framework by suspending the debt limit until the end of the fiscal year on September 30 would create space for Biden and McCarthy to negotiate a ...

Gaetz or one of his allies now have the power to trigger a so-called “motion to vacate” if McCarthy cuts a debt deal with Biden and the Democrats that they feel is too liberal. He was already ...

Republicans control, if that is the right word, the House with 218 votes, a bare majority. Democrats hold 213 seats, with ...

The tone of the talks at the White House on Monday appeared to be more optimistic US President Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling ...

“I can’t imagine any debt ceiling provision passed out of the Senate with 60 votes could actually pass this particular House,” he added. Biden and McCarthy have agreed to meet to talk about ...

Democrats would get if they agreed to deeper spending cuts than Biden’s team has proposed is uncertain. McCarthy and his Republican negotiators said what the Democrats get is a debt ceiling ...

The package makes some inroads in curbing the nation’s debt as Republicans demanded, without rolling back Trump-era tax breaks as Biden wanted. To pass it, Biden and McCarthy counted on support ...

designed to solve the debt-ceiling dispute. Media reports said Biden and McCarthy spoke on Sunday as the president was heading back to the U.S. from the G-7 summit in Japan. Reuters quoted ...

McCarthy seemingly suggested that Joe Biden should personally 'meddle with the justice system' to postpone the trial for his ...