debt limit

Published
December 19, 2024

Government shutdown looms as House rejects Trump-backed plan

The cobbled-together plan required a two-thirds threshold for passage, but was defeated resoundingly, getting rejected on a 235-174 vote.
Published
June 13, 2023

Commentary: Who deserves welfare? That’s the wrong question

When government focuses on identifying the worthy, it fails to serve the needy.
Published
June 7, 2023

House heads home after hard-right Republicans defy McCarthy, block legislation

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy admits he was 'blindsided' by the rebuke, but insisted the Republican caucus would emerge stronger.
Published
June 7, 2023

Clarence Page: Congress finds virtue in compromise – at last

Lessons of the debt ceiling debate: Congress should not be encouraged to hold the rest of the government hostage to get the legislation they want.
Published
June 4, 2023

The Conversation: COVID-19 clawbacks, spending caps and a cut — what House Republicans got in return for pushing the U.S. to the brink of default

Published
June 4, 2023

Jim Fossel: No leadership in debt ceiling deal

Rather than truly addressing the nation’s fiscal woes, both sides were more than happy to walk away with a symbolic victory.
Published
June 3, 2023

Debt deal imposes new work requirements for food aid and that frustrates many Democrats

In the end, Democrats warily accepted new requirements for some able-bodied recipients in exchange for food aid. Republicans agreed to drop some work requirements for veterans, homeless people, and others.
Published
June 3, 2023

Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls U.S. back from brink of unprecedented default

The bipartisan measure, passed by the House Wednesday and the Senate Thursday, averts the potential of an unprecedented government default that would have rocked the U.S. and global economies.
Published
June 2, 2023

Biden celebrates a ‘crisis averted’ in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal

In both chambers, more Democrats backed the legislation than Republicans, but both parties were critical to its passage.
Published
June 2, 2023

Gordon L. Weil: Debt ceiling ‘crisis’ pure political theater