ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nation s debt limit while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. let s get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. an
night! good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle. less than two hours ago, the house passed a bipartisan plan to head off a disastrous default which the treasury warned could come as soon as monday. it will clear the house at a critical time for our economy with the risk of recession still a concern. 314 members voted in favor of the bill. how does 17 voted against it. among the no votes, 71 republicans including members of the freedom caucus. but they were not alone. 46 democrats were also in a no column. before the vote took place, several members from both sides went to the floor to make their case before the bell. thank goodness for joe biden s legislative skill. we will not go over the edge. and they were prepared to take us over the edge! the bill contains spending cuts that take a step in the right direction towards restoring fiscal sanity in washington. we need to avert a default that would stop checks to our seniors, benefits for our veterans. ho
despite those who say, go back to your own country, puerto rico is part of the u.s. it s not a state. but its inhabitants are 100% american. and this right here is el viejo, san juan, the oldest part of a heavily fortified colonial city established in 1521 by none other than ponce de leon. and the spaniards named it puerto rico, aka rich port, so you can get an idea of what their intentions were for this island. sugar, spices, gold, just a few of the perks the spanish enjoyed for over 400 years. that is, until the u.s. was happy to help, you know, liberate the island from the spanish and make it a u.s. commonwealth. that means puerto rico is neither an independent country nor an official state. and its people don t have a vote in the u.s. congress or in presidential elections. despite all of that, puerto ricans are unstoppable. and their cultural impact on the u.s. and the world? massive. to really get to the bottom of how puerto rico has not only survived but thrived requi
arguing in front of the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, laying out a case of why the fda approved abortion bill should remain on the market. what we know about the panel of judges we have to convince, we re not just watching louisiana, the republican super majority in north carolina voted to override the democratic governor s detail, making abortion illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy. governor cooper argues in practice, the law might act like a total ban. we are on the ground in rally with what happened right before and after that vote. in nebraska, republicans are revising their failed six-week abortion pill ban to i m sorry, abortion bill ban to 12 weeks to remember the six-week ban was sunk by a single republican holdout. does his vote change to a yes for a 12-week ban? in south carolina, after three republican women refused to sign on to a total ban, the party is now weighing a new option, banning abortion after a fetal heart beat is detected. typically
last hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capitol in washington, d.c., but of course they also have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman from virginia gerry connolly who you see here. this is his district office in fairfax, virginia, northern virginia just outside d.c. the congressman, himself, was not in the office. he was out apparently at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank. a man showed up at the office wielding a metal bat. he asked to see the congressman who wasn t there. then he reportedly just started swinging. congressman connolly s chief of staff tells nbc news tonight that the man smashed computers in the office and smashed glass with the bat. he then attacked two staffers. one senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this meta