Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) A bipartisan majority of Congress will approve a compromise in the coming days to raise the nation s debt ceiling and avert a historic default that could upend the economy while enforcing some limits on government spending, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted on Sunday.
McCarthy, flanked by the two Republican negotiators who worked with him on brokering a debt and spending deal with the White House, spoke with reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill on Sunday.
He offered some specifics about the agreement with President Joe Biden while pushing back on already-emerging criticism from his party s right flank that Republicans did not exact enough concessions on the federal government s budget.
"I think people will look back and say, Well I didn t get exactly what I wanted. But there s something in here that it shouldn t be about you, it should be about America," McCarthy said. "America believes that we have spent t
(WASHINGTON) A bipartisan majority of Congress will approve a compromise in the coming days to raise the nation's debt ceiling and avert a historic default that could upend the economy while enforcing some limits on government spending, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted on Sunday. McCarthy, flanked by the two Republican negotiators who worked with him
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