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Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government
WASHINGTON (AP) It was advice that Mitch McConnell had offered to Joe Biden once already: To resolve the debt-limit standoff, he needed to strike a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and McCarthy alone. But after a first meeting of the top four congressional leaders with the president in early May, the Senate […]
Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were each person’s five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government.
Even with a resounding 314-117 House vote the episode is testing the durability of McCarthy’s speakership and his ability to tame a restive hard-right.