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6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
And while they were out-voted by the combination of Democrats and less extreme Republicans, given Kevin McCarthy’s tenuous hold on the Speakership, it is easy to imagine that he might have taken a much harder negotiating line to appease his far-right flank.But even though one might imagine that, say, the Republicans’ patrons on Wall Street did not want a crisis, and Democrats certainly did not want one, wars have been fought because of miscalculations and strategies… [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 1:07 pm
" Again, I agree with many of the criticisms of Biden's strategy regarding the debt ceiling, most definitely including its unfortunate creation of a halo over the empty head of the hapless McCarthy. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 4:00 am
Mitch McConnell was content to allow Kevin McCarthy to take the lead in the most recent negotiations, but in anticipation of regaining his status as Senate majority leader, he would stake out a tougher position in the lead-up to January 2, 2025 and thereafter as majority leader. [read post]
4 Jun 2023, 9:02 pm
Maybe you stopped pacing the floor May 31, the day the House approved the bill by a wide, bipartisan margin, avoiding a “catastrophic” default by overcoming fringes on the left and right who apparently would have derailed the legislation.Perhaps you had been confident ever since May 28, when Democratic and Republican negotiators, led by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, agreed to the compromise that eventually became law, or the day earlier, when… [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 9:01 am
” Earlier this week, President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a deal on raising the debt ceiling, and thereby avoiding a potential financial catastrophe. [read post]
30 May 2023, 4:00 am
Buchanan After the chaos of the last month or so, the world now finds itself in an unexpected limbo, waiting to see whether the deal that President Biden worked out with Kevin McCarthy late last week will be passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law. [read post]
28 May 2023, 1:24 pm
Nominally, he got owned by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. [read post]
26 May 2023, 8:22 am
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Friday negotiators "made progress” on an agreement with the White House to raise the debt limit as they race to close out a deal. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended the move as providing Santos with “due process. [read post]
24 May 2023, 11:21 am
Kevin McCarthy said he was sending Republican negotiators to the White House to finish out debt limit talks, but warned that the two sides are “still far apart. [read post]
24 May 2023, 6:08 am
" Writes Ed Kilgore in "Kevin McCarthy May Have Already Won the Debt-Limit Fight" (NY Magazine). [read post]
23 May 2023, 6:57 am
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy both said they had a productive debt ceiling discussion at the White House, but there was no agreement. [read post]
19 May 2023, 6:00 am
Notable Events of the Week: “Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s demand that any deal to raise the debt limit must include stricter work requirements for social safety net programs — and President Biden’s hints that he might be willing to accept such a bargain — has drawn a backlash from liberal Democrats in Congress, underscoring the tricky politics at play in bipartisan talks to avert a default. [read post]
18 May 2023, 10:41 am
A Washington Post article yesterday, titled "McCarthy's Big Breakthrough," reported that "Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is feeling pretty good after his meeting Tuesday with President Biden and the other three top congressional leaders. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm
What happens when one side of a potentially life-altering political dispute brings nothing to the table, not merely lacking serious policy proposals but also not even bothering to try to make non-embarrassing arguments based on evidence and logic? [read post]
17 May 2023, 5:21 pm
And nothing about the courage this scenario requires bears any resemblance to the Kevin McCarthy who has repeatedly condemned Donald Trump in private only to bow obsequiously to whatever he asks. [read post]
17 May 2023, 4:54 am
In it, we offer President Biden a tool to use in the ongoing negotiations discussions with Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans. [read post]
14 May 2023, 2:31 pm
The “x-date” is the date when it’s no longer possible for the Biden Administration to keep following all the laws Congress has passed—laws requiring specific spending, laws setting tax rates, and a law from 1917 that sets a debt limit—absent some extraordinary maneuver. [read post]
11 May 2023, 6:30 am
Politically, any workaround the President chooses from the options on the chart below other than the first column (disorderly default) would be in that sense “working around” the will of the present Kevin McCarthy-led House. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:01 pm
The constitutional crisis caused by the Republicans’ attempts at extortion via the debt ceiling has now increased from a simmer to a boil. [read post]
