The White House has a simple message to Democrats skeptical of the debt ceiling agreement the president cut with Speaker Kevin McCarthy: Don’t judge us by what’s included but what we kept out. Top administration officials began fanning out late Saturday evening and all through Sunday to sell the deal,

After days of intense negotiations and weeks of talks, an agreement in principle has been reached to raise the debt ceiling.

Speaker McCarthy, who announced the agreement Saturday night, will speak with GOP lawmakers on Saturday night to outline the agreement.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced at a brief presser on Saturday night that House Republicans and the White House have reached a tentative deal to raise the federal government's debt limit, ending a monthslong stalemate.

White House and House GOP negotiators are racing to finalize a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit as early as Saturday with time running perilously short and the risk of a first-ever US default growing.

With the government on track to reach its borrowing limit within days, negotiators sealed an agreement to raise the debt ceiling for two years while cutting and capping certain federal programs.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus said they would try to prevent the agreement from passing in a vote expected on Wednesday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed threats of opposition.