The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown. It could cost him his job. Anna Moneymaker / Getty September 30, 2023, 5:52 PM ET Updated…
Read more Kevin McCarthy Finally Defies the RightYesterday was not a good day for House Republicans or for their struggling leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In the morning, McCarthy was forced to scrap a procedural vote…
Read more Why Republicans Can’t Keep the Government OpenShortly after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he had struck a deal with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling, Republican leaders began circulating a fact…
Read more Republicans Don’t Really Want to Cut SpendingAs the government careens toward the brink of default without a deal to lift the debt limit, an unlikely source of reassurance has emerged. “I think everyone needs…
Read more The Case for Debt-Ceiling OptimismThe budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center…
Read more Why the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the BoomersOn its surface, the unfolding debt-ceiling crisis looks a lot like the confrontation in 2011 between congressional Republicans and then-President Barack Obama. Once again, a new GOP majority…
Read more This Debt Crisis Is Not Like 2011’s. It’s Worse.President Joe Biden has already made the most important domestic-policy decision he’ll likely face this year. Biden and his top advisers have repeatedly indicated that they will reject…
Read more The Obama Legacy Shaping Biden’s Most Important DecisionEarly this summer, the federal government will, in all likelihood, exhaust the “extraordinary measures” it is now employing to keep paying the nation’s bills. As the country careens…
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