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‘Soft food’ to ‘good faith’: How Biden and McCarthy came together on debt deal
By Brett Samuels
Debt limit deal is in place, but budget deficit is still a multi-decade challenge for US government
By Josh Boak
There is always more money for defense contractors
By Judd Legum
Debt ceiling news: With debt limit vote closer, White House makes final push for Democratic support
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Obama agreed to $2.1 trillion in spending cuts to end 2011 debt ceiling crisis. Here’s what happened next.
By Tami Luhby
Far-right members, unhappy with debt deal, float threatening McCarthy's speakership
By Scott Wong & Katherine Doyle
House conservatives threaten push to oust McCarthy over debt deal
By Olivia Beavers & Sarah Ferris
US debt ceiling deal reaches House of Representatives despite hard-line conservative revolt
By Anthony Zurcher
US House poised to vote on urgently needed debt ceiling suspension
By David Morgan & Moira Warburton
Debt ceiling deal to prevent default narrowly passes 1st big test in key House committee
By Chris Boccia, Alexandra Hutzler & Katherine Faulders
Debt ceiling bill clears key hurdle, teeing up final House vote before it goes to Senate
By Christina Wilkie & Emma Kinery
Debt Ceiling Deal Moves Toward House Vote Despite GOP Revolt
By Carl Hulse & Catie Edmondson
Freedom Caucus promises "reckoning" over McCarthy's debt ceiling deal
By Andrew Solender & Zachary Basu
Debt ceiling deal faces first hurdle in Republican-led House
By Paul Kane, Marianna Sotomayor & Amy B Wang
Republicans Push for More Military Spending in Debt Deal as They Decry Deficit
By Roxana Tiron & Tony Capaccio
Debt Ceiling Agreement Lifts Student Loan Pause, Cuts Some IRS Funding
By Kelly Phillips Erb
Kevin McCarthy faces rebellion from House Freedom Caucus over debt deal
By Joey Garrison & Rachel Looker
What The Debt Ceiling Agreement Means For The IRS
By Janet Holtzblatt
Parity, Schmarity: The Budget Deal Gives 56% of the Discretionary Budget to the Military
By Lindsay Koshgarian
In debt ceiling deal, Joe Biden proved his critics wrong — again
By Michael A. Cohen
The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
By Julie Rovner
Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate
By Paul M. Krawzak
Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted' in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal
By Chris Megerian & Zeke Miller
House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate
By Stephen Groves, Kevin Freking & Lisa Mascaro
Just days to spare, Senate gives final approval to debt ceiling deal, sending it to Biden
By Stephen Groves, Kevin Freking & Lisa Mascaro
How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
By Stephen Groves, Seung Min Kim & Farnoush Amiri
Here's what's in, what's out of the debt limit bill to avert US default
By Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves & Farnoush Amiri
Debt limit deal clears key hurdle ahead of final House vote
By Kristin Wilson, Lauren Fox & Clare Foran
Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote
By Manu Raju
House passes debt limit deal as lawmakers race to avert default
By Kristin Wilson, Clare Foran & Haley Talbot
Senate passes debt limit deal to avert default
By Nicky Robertson, Kristin Wilson & Clare Foran
Biden addresses nation after avoiding catastrophic default: ‘The stakes could not have been higher’
By Kevin Liptak
Inside a debt ceiling standoff ‘far more dangerous than people will recognize’
By Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak & Lauren Fox
Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal was approved 7-6 by key committee ahead of House vote
By Sahil Kapur & Summer Concepcion
New debt limit bill trashed by GOP hard-liners as party leaders push for votes
By Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V & Julie Tsirkin
The Senate will vote on the debt ceiling deal Thursday night
By Kate Santaliz, Frank Thorp V & Frank Thorp