Biden to address nation from Oval Office after avoiding catastrophic default
President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening -- his first time speaking to the country directly from that setting -- following congressional passage of a compromise measure that raises the federal borrowing limit and avoids a catastrophic default.
2023-06-02 23:26
US food aid could shrink under debt ceiling deal, hunger groups warn
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON Changes to the largest U.S. food aid program in the debt deal passed by
2023-06-02 18:16
Here's what's in the debt ceiling package
Congress has passed the debt ceiling package, just days before the Treasury Department would have run out of sufficient funds to pay all of the nation's obligations on time and in full.
2023-06-02 11:19
Factbox-What's in the debt ceiling deal struck by Biden and McCarthy?
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate is debating a bill brokered by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
2023-06-02 06:47
Dye Hard: How Blue Man Group Took Performance Art Mainstream
The Smurf-colored trio came up in the counterculture. Then Intel came calling.
2023-06-02 05:57
Top Democrats say Biden should make this year's 'craziness' the last debt limit fight ever
Even as Joe Biden appears to have pushed off reaching the next debt limit until 2025, top Democrats on Capitol Hill say what he really needs to do is what he should have done last fall: Come out in favor of a drastic change to strip Congress of this power forever.
2023-06-02 03:21
US Senate will stay in session until debt ceiling bill passed -Schumer
By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate will stay in session until it passes
2023-06-02 02:29
Debt ceiling deal heads to US Senate for approval
The Senate must approve the deal and send it to the president's desk this weekend to avoid a default.
2023-06-02 01:18
Analysis-US debt-ceiling deal averts disaster, but savings might be less than advertised
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON The bipartisan debt-ceiling deal that could clear Congress as soon as Thursday would stave
2023-06-01 22:56
Analysis-US debt-ceiling deal dooms Biden's revolutionary tax plans
By David Lawder WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign promise to make wealthy Americans and corporations pay
2023-06-01 18:25
Senate races to avert default but vote timing unclear for debt limit bill
Senators are racing the clock to pass a bill to to suspend the nation's debt limit through January 1, 2025 -- but it's not yet clear when a final vote will take place as the threat of default looms.
2023-06-01 17:26
Inside a debt ceiling standoff 'far more dangerous than people will recognize'
President Joe Biden ended the month of May the same way he began it: with a phone call to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. .
2023-06-01 11:26