President Joe Biden told Democrats during a private meeting that he believed they could secure a deal on a new tax-and-spending proposal between $1.75 trillion...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there are “important decisions to make” to slim down the tax-and-spending package to an amount that her full party, including...
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Wednesday plan to block Democrats from raising the country's debt ceiling, daring President Joe Biden and his party's top lawmakers...
The Senate majority leader's push to accelerate the debt-ceiling vote comes as lawmakers have just two weeks before hitting the date at which the U.S....
The GOP's expected opposition is sure to deal a death blow to the measure, which had passed the House last week, and threatens to add...
The White House budget office notified federal agencies on Thursday to begin preparations for the first shutdown of the U.S. government since the pandemic began,...
If Congress doesn't act, the government will shut down Oct. 1. But Republicans have expressed opposition to helping Democrats raise the debt limit, and it's...
