The latest news and live updates on debt ceiling negotiations. Follow news on Biden and McCarthy’s efforts to strike a deal and avoid a national debt default. Kyle Stewart Alexandra Bacallao “They invited us, we answered the invitation,” McHenry said. “Look the deal is, is that we’ve been working all night trying to look at things differently, trying to come up with new ideas,” Graves said.
“We recognize the urgency here.”
Share this – GOP negotiators expected to attend talks at White House and Republican negotiators will go to the White House for debt talks today, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The meeting was expected to start at noon.
The meeting comes after negotiators disbanded at 1 p.m. yesterday. Today, a Democratic official familiar with the talks characterized the negotiations as hitting a”speed bump.” 1h ago / 4:21 PM UTC
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Speaker McCarthy reiterates that there are still a number of places where both sides are ‘far apart’ on negotiations. He adds that he thinks ‘we can make progress today.’
McCarthy warns White House and GOP ‘nowhere near a deal’ on debt ceilingHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned Republican lawmakers that his team is “nowhere near a deal” with the White House on the debt ceiling, ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden just nine days before the default deadline.
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House GOP to vote on overturning student-debt relief this weekHouse Republicans are planning to vote on a bill this week to deprive over ’40 million hard-working’ student-loan borrowers of debt cancellation, the White House says — and if passed, Biden will veto it
House GOP auctions off McCarthy’s used chapstick as debt talks intensifyThe fundraising auction of McCarthy’s used cherry lip balm ended when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) placed a winning $100,000 bid, as confirmed by her spokesperson. That cash is headed for the House GOP campaign arm.
Amid debt ceiling impasse, House GOP auctions off lip balm for $100,000Amid sputtering debt ceiling negotiations, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bid $100,000 to win a lip balm — and a fundraising visit from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — in an auction to benefit the House GOP’s campaign arm.
House Democratic angst grows as Biden’s debt limit negotiations with GOP drag on’The president needs to fully utilize the bully pulpit, the power of the presidency, to get the message across to the American people what’s really at stake here,’ one lawmaker says on debt ceiling talks.
