Biden Outsmarted Republicans And He Knows It
President Biden has put the clamps on publicly bragging about the debt ceiling deal but privately has admitted to out-negotiating McCarthy.
President Biden has put the clamps on publicly bragging about the debt ceiling deal but privately has admitted to out-negotiating McCarthy.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy needed House Democrats to save the day as more Democrats than Republicans voted for the debt limit bill.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced his support for the debt limit bill.
Twice on Tuesday, Speaker Kevin McCarty discussed the debt limit bill in a way that sounded like he is trying to force children to get jobs.
The House Freedom Caucus held a press conference on Tuesday where they complained that the debt limit deal will prevent them from crashing the economy for Trump.
In a moment that was the height of delusion, Kevin McCarthy tried to pretend like he and Biden are equals and he didn’t just get his clock cleaned on the debt limit deal.
The whole point of the GOP’s debt limit drama was to provoke a recession to sabotage Biden before the election, but Republicans have failed.
Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are realizing that they have been duped and Speaker McCarthy is selling fake cuts in the debt ceiling deal.
House Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) asked what all the drama was about after Republicans got nothing that they asked for in debt limit deal.
Kevin McCarthy went on national television and lied about Hakeem Jeffries, so the House Democratic Leader called him out.
Kevin McCarthy promised big cuts, and he didn’t deliver. He promised massive work requirements and failed, all while giving President Biden the framework that he wanted.
The White House fired back at House Republicans and accused them of trying to starve the poor with work requirements.
In a letter, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote that the new date when the US will run out of money is June 5.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy keeps trying to blame Democrats for spending, but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brought the facts.
House Republicans are warning that any watered-down debt limit deal could collapse the GOP majority, which would make it certain that somebody would try to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s position is so weak that he doesn’t have the Republican votes to pass the spending cuts that he wants.
A new Monmouth University Poll found that Americans agree with President Biden’s position by a more than 2 to 1 margin on the debt limit.
House Republicans aren’t very good at this. Instead of being subtle, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) referred to the US economy as ‘our hostage’ while talking about the debt limit.
House Democrats are warning that there will be a big problem if Republicans try to put social safety net program work requirements into the debt limit bill.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans pulled out of debt limit talks because they claim the conversations aren’t productive.
Speaker McCarthy attacked President Biden for leaving the country on an overseas trip while he is trying to hold America hostage.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) seems to think he is in charge, but his fear looks to grow as he falsely claims that President Biden wants a default.
After Speaker McCarthy complained about his White House meeting with the President, Biden called out McCarthy’s lies.
During an interview on Meet The Press, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries rejected the idea of giving Kevin McCarthy a debt limit escape hatch.
House Democrats have been working for months on a secret long-shot strategy to go around Kevin McCarthy and raise the debt limit.
Majority Leader Schumer and Democratic Leader Jeffries made it clear that Democrats aren’t budging on their demand for a clean debt limit bill
Speaker Kevin McCarthy told House Republicans to ignore what was in his debt limit bill and vote for it anyway because it would never become law.
By a narrow margin of 217-215, House Republicans passed Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit bill and gave a huge gift to Biden and the Democrats.
At a speech on Tuesday, President Biden took apart Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans for their debt ceiling bill.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit plan by calling it a 320-page ransom note that would kill jobs and give kids asthma.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt limit bill is not going over well in the Senate as Sen. Chris Murphy unloaded on the Republican House leader.
President Biden responded to Speaker McCarthy by painting the Republican demand for cuts as pushing the country toward a default that would hurt working people.
Kevin McCarthy and his House Republicans are considering repealing the Inflation Reduction Act as part of their debt limit increase package.
President Biden fully understands what Speaker McCarthy is trying to do on the debt ceiling so the White House has had no contact with him since their meeting.
After Speaker McCarthy tried to blame Biden for the debt limit, the White House fired back and basically told him to do his job.
Republicans are trying to go back to 2011 on the debt limit, but Democrats changed their tactics, and President Biden is in good shape to win in 2023.
We are at a dangerous moment in America. Republicans have effectively sanctioned violent vigilante justice.
President Obama is gearing up for a huge showdown with Congressional Republicans promising to veto any bill that raises the debt limit, but contains spending cuts.
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
After the defeat of the would be Republican hostage takers on the debt ceiling bill, President Obama delivered the message to the congressional children that it is time for them to grow up and stop playing games.
A day after John Boehner told them to pass a clean debt ceiling increase, House Republicans ignored him and can’t agree on a bill to avoid economic disaster.
A letter from the House Way and Means Democrats is one of the first official warnings to John Boehner that he better not play games with the debt ceiling, because Democrats aren’t negotiating.
One would think that the idea of deliberately crashing the economy would not garner much support, but an overwhelming majority of Republicans want their party to cause an economic catastrophe.
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
Most Americans would love a situation where a financial institution paid them handsomely for repaying their debts, but that is precisely what Republicans expect from the American people.
Americans can hardly take much more economic abuse from Republicans and Wall Street CEOs, panting to cut spending under the guise of debt or deficit reduction just to enrich wealthy industrialists.
Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan set in motion a movement that hastened America’s deterioration that another Republican president, George W. Bush, accelerated twelve years ago.
The concept of shutting down the government unless Republicans control the direction and vision of the nation is nothing less than criminal.