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Kevin McCarthy Finally Defies the Right
[ad_1] The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown. It could cost him his job. Anna Moneymaker / Getty September 30,…
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Republicans Don’t Really Want to Cut Spending
[ad_1] Shortly after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he had struck a deal with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling, Republican…
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This Debt Crisis Is Not Like 2011’s. It’s Worse.
[ad_1] On its surface, the unfolding debt-ceiling crisis looks a lot like the confrontation in 2011 between congressional Republicans and then-President Barack Obama. Once…
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How Moderate Republicans Became an Endangered Species
[ad_1] Early this summer, the federal government will, in all likelihood, exhaust the “extraordinary measures” it is now employing to keep paying the nation’s…