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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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Why Republicans Can’t Keep the Government Open
[ad_1] Yesterday was not a good day for House Republicans or for their struggling leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In the morning, McCarthy was forced…
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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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The Case for Debt-Ceiling Optimism
[ad_1] As the government careens toward the brink of default without a deal to lift the debt limit, an unlikely source of reassurance has…
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Why the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the Boomers
[ad_1] The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial…
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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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The Obama Legacy Shaping Biden’s Most Important Decision
[ad_1] 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…
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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…