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Biden celebrates a 'crisis averted' in Oval Office address on bipartisan debt ceiling deal
By Chris Megerian & Zeke Miller
Parity, Schmarity: The Budget Deal Gives 56% of the Discretionary Budget to the Military
By Lindsay Koshgarian
There is always more money for defense contractors
By Judd Legum
McCarthy's speaker deal takes strange turn
By Aaron Blake
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Debt limit deal clears key hurdle ahead of final House vote
By Kristin Wilson, Clare Foran & Lauren Fox
McCarthy overcomes Rules rebellion over debt deal
By Jordain Carney, Sarah Ferris & Katherine Tully
Republicans speak out against US debt-ceiling deal, in sign of rocky road ahead
By Andy Sullivan & Gram Slattery
Congress has days to OK debt limit deal before default: Timeline of what's next
By Alexandra Hutzler
Debt ceiling bill clears key hurdle, teeing up final House vote before it goes to Senate
By Christina Wilkie & Emma Kinery
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won't Shake the Economy (Published 2023)
By Jim Tankersley
Debt Ceiling Agreement Lifts Student Loan Pause, Cuts Some IRS Funding
By Kelly Phillips Erb
Jeffries, McCarthy say there was no deal to save debt ceiling bill
By Juliegrace Brufke & Andrew Solender
What The Debt Ceiling Agreement Means For The IRS
By Janet Holtzblatt
The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
By Julie Rovner
Debt limit rule adopted after Democrats ride to rescue
By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss & Caitlin Reilly
In debt ceiling deal, Joe Biden proved his critics wrong — again
By Michael A. Cohen
After Calling Joe Biden Senile, Republicans Complain He Outsmarted Them
By Arthur Delaney & Igor Bobic
House passes McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling deal, sends to Senate five days before funding crunch
By Elizabeth Elkind
Debt limit deal heads to vote in full House while McCarthy scrambles for GOP approval
By Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves & Lisa Mascaro
Debt limit deal is in place, but budget deficit is still a multi-decade challenge for US government
By Josh Boak
Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right
By 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
House OKs debt ceiling bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate
By Stephen Groves, Kevin Freking & 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
Republican tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee as pressure grows on key swing vote
By Manu Raju
Obama agreed to $2.1 trillion in spending cuts to end 2011 debt ceiling crisis. Here’s what happened next.
By Tami Luhby
House passes debt limit deal as lawmakers race to avert default
By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson & Haley Talbot
Senate passes debt limit deal to avert default
By Nicky Robertson, Clare Foran & Kristin Wilson
Biden addresses nation after avoiding catastrophic default: ‘The stakes could not have been higher’
By Kevin Liptak
Debt deal avoids the really tough decisions
By Zach Wolf
Inside a debt ceiling standoff ‘far more dangerous than people will recognize’
By Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak & Phil Mattingly