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McCarthy: Deal 'not 100% of what everybody wants' but good for country
WATCH: Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted' in Oval Office address on debt ceiling deal
By Chris Megerian
Transcript: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on "Face the Nation," May 28, 2023
There is always more money for defense contractors
By Judd Legum
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Debt limit deal is in place, but budget deficit is still a multi-decade challenge for US government
By Josh Boak
Republicans Push for More Military Spending in Debt Deal as They Decry Deficit
By Roxana Tiron & Tony Capaccio
Obama agreed to $2.1 trillion in spending cuts to end 2011 debt ceiling crisis. Here’s what happened next.
By Tami Luhby
A break-glass option, gumbo and a bike ride: How the debt ceiling deal got done
By Sahil Kapur, Peter Nicholas & Mike Memoli
Debt Ceiling: Senate Passes Debt Limit Bill
By Carl Hulse, Catie Edmondson & Alicia Parlapiano
US debt crisis: Joe Biden gets the deal done but at a cost
By James Politi & Aime Williams
House conservatives threaten push to oust McCarthy over debt deal
By Olivia Beavers & Sarah Ferris
Parity, Schmarity: The Budget Deal Gives 56% of the Discretionary Budget to the Military
By Lindsay Koshgarian
White House and Republicans reach a tentative deal to avoid U.S. default
By Christina Wilkie
In debt ceiling deal, Joe Biden proved his critics wrong — again
By Michael A. Cohen
US debt ceiling deal reaches House of Representatives despite hard-line conservative revolt
By Anthony Zurcher
Debt ceiling deal to prevent default narrowly passes 1st big test in key House committee
By Chris Boccia, Alexandra Hutzler & Katherine Faulders
How the debt ceiling deal affects student loans, SNAP, and clean energy
By Andrew Prokop, Christian Paz & Li Zhou
What The Debt Ceiling Agreement Means For The IRS
By Janet Holtzblatt
Jeffries, McCarthy say there was no deal to save debt ceiling bill
By Andrew Solender & Juliegrace Brufke
Debt ceiling agreement in principle reached between Democrats, Republicans
By Elizabeth Elkind, Chad Pergram & Brooke Singman
Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate
By Paul M. Krawzak
The debt deal set a new date for student loan payments to resume
By Rachel Liesendahl, Casey Kuhn & Nicole Ellis
Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted' in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal
By Chris Megerian & Zeke Miller
How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
By Stephen Groves, Farnoush Amiri & Seung Min Kim
House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate
By Stephen Groves, Kevin Freking & Lisa Mascaro
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro & Stephen Groves
Debt ceiling tests Speaker McCarthy as he rides breezily through high-wire act of his career
By Lisa Mascaro
Here's what's in, what's out of the debt limit bill to avert US default
By Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves & Farnoush Amiri
Just days to spare, Senate gives final approval to debt ceiling deal, sending it to Biden
By Stephen Groves, Kevin Freking & Lisa Mascaro
Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress
By Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller & Farnoush Amiri
How every senator voted on the debt ceiling bill
By Sydney Kashiwagi
Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote
By Manu Raju
Biden addresses nation after avoiding catastrophic default: ‘The stakes could not have been higher’
By Kevin Liptak
Debt limit deal clears key hurdle ahead of final House vote
By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson & Lauren Fox
House passes debt limit deal as lawmakers race to avert default
By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson & Haley Talbot