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1 Jun 2023, 9:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
” 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 by Neil H. Buchanan
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 by David Super
  Nominally, he got owned by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. [read post]
26 May 2023, 8:22 am by Associated Press
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 by Jim Sedor
Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended the move as providing Santos with “due process. [read post]
24 May 2023, 11:21 am by Associated Press
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]
23 May 2023, 6:57 am by Associated Press
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 by Gene Takagi
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 by Neil H. Buchanan
  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 by Neil H. Buchanan
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 by David Super
  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 by Michael C. Dorf
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 by Joseph Fishkin
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 by Joseph Fishkin
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 by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
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]
2 May 2023, 3:23 am by Seán Binder
  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said yesterday that he would invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress if President Biden refuses to invite Netanyahu to the White House. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 7:00 am by Gene Takagi
Notable Events of the Week: “The Real Debt Limit Fight Is Yet to Come Speaker Kevin McCarthy squeezed a debt ceiling increase out of reluctant House Republicans, but he will be hard-pressed to do it again when it counts. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
  On April 17, 2023, Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a one-year increase of the debt ceiling in exchange for a series of budget cuts, whereas President Biden has repeatedly proposed that Congress raise it without conditions and address budget negotiations separately. [read post]