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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
IRS funding cut won't hurt near-term tax collection, officials say
By Trevor Hunnicutt & Muralikumar Anantharaman
Transcript: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on "Face the Nation," May 28, 2023
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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
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
Bipartisan debt limit package unveiled as clock ticks toward 'x date'
By Paul M. Krawzak & David Lerman
House conservatives threaten push to oust McCarthy over debt deal
By Olivia Beavers & Sarah Ferris
Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal was approved 7-6 by key committee ahead of House vote
By Sahil Kapur & Summer Concepcion
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
The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
By Julie Rovner
US debt ceiling deal reaches House of Representatives despite hard-line conservative revolt
By Anthony Zurcher
How the debt ceiling deal affects student loans, SNAP, and clean energy
By Andrew Prokop, Christian Paz & Li Zhou
Debt ceiling bill clears Senate, heads to Biden's desk
By Andrew Solender
Debt ceiling drama heads down to the wire in Senate
By Trish Turner & Allison Pecorin
What The Debt Ceiling Agreement Means For The IRS
By Janet Holtzblatt
Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted' in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal
By Chris Megerian & Zeke Miller
Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right
By Lisa Mascaro
How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
By Stephen Groves, Seung Min Kim & Farnoush Amiri
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
By Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves & 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
Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress
By Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller & Michelle L. Price
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
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 Kristin Wilson, Clare Foran & Lauren Fox
Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote
By Manu Raju
Inside a debt ceiling standoff ‘far more dangerous than people will recognize’
By Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak & Lauren Fox
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, Clare Foran & Kristin Wilson