On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) argued that House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — who is the only leader in Congress to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling — is the only
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to questions on whether President Joe Biden would support stricter work requirements as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling by stating that work
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that imposing work requirements for certain federal government benefit programs as part of a deal to raise the debt limit would be “cruel, especially as we see
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt stated that President Joe Biden is still not negotiating over the debt limit and “What the President has been open to throughout this process is a
President Joe Biden will end his upcoming foreign trip earlier than expected and return to the United States to continue negotiations on the debt ceiling, according to reports.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) called for clawing back unspent COVID money as part of raising the debt ceiling and pointed to New Jersey using COVID funds for SUVs
The Biden administration seems keener on letting a U.S. debt default occur than coming to an agreement with Republicans to extend the limit, Kevin McCarthy has claimed.
The yield curve on very short-term debt issued by the U.S. government is deeply inverted. Could this signal concerns about the debt ceiling?
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that President Joe Biden should use the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit unilaterally if the House — which has passed a bill to raise the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” CNBC Contributor and former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) argued that President Joe Biden is eventually going to have to make some concessions on the debt ceiling and that the White House bet the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” host Neil Cavuto noted that, during his time as a United States Senator, President Joe Biden “went along with interrupting and disrupting the then-Republican President’s plan to try to get
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Primetime,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) stated that President Joe Biden’s refusal to negotiate over the debt ceiling “conflicts with everything the President has ever stood for” and noted that as a Senator, Biden opposed debt
While speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that President Joe Biden’s refusal to negotiate over spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling is “not rational, it’s not reasonable, and it’s not practical.” And that
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich fact-checked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in real time during Tuesday’s White House press briefing when Jean-Pierre repeated several false claims about the debt limit.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday rejected any short-term debt limit deal with President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.
Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party over debt ceiling negotiations ahead of Tuesday’s White House summit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti stated that “there is no plan B” if Congress won’t pass a clean increase to the debt ceiling and responded to a question on
The president and his cabinet members have acted as if reaching a legislative compromise to the debt limit would be a violation of their principles, the Constitution, and perhaps even the divine order.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed on Monday that House Republicans are “manufacturing” a debt limit crisis after the House passed a bill to increase the debt limit to avoid default.
Economist Stephen Moore explains how high the stakes are in the debt ceiling debate.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden will change course and negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, and that while he doesn’t think there should be conditions attached to raising the debt ceiling, “the
During an interview with MSNBC on Friday aired on Friday’s broadcast of “The 11th Hour,” President Joe Biden claimed that “no one’s ever tied” their budget to raising the debt ceiling and responded to charges that former President Donald Trump
During an interview with MSNBC on Friday aired on Friday’s broadcast of “The 11th Hour,” President Joe Biden said that he isn’t prepared to invoke the 14th Amendment to go through the debt ceiling “yet.” But there might be some
During an interview with CBS News on Thursday, Biden Senior Adviser Anita Dunn argued that House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hasn’t completed his job by passing a bill to raise the debt ceiling because the House’s bill won’t pass
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) stated that President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress “have been fiscally responsible” and “there is very little to nothing” in the bill to
President Joe Biden in a tweet on Sunday falsely claimed that “MAGA Republicans” want to “undermine veterans’ health care.”
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) criticized House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for his handling of the debt ceiling and defended his support of using the debt ceiling for leverage in
On Thursday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Red & Blue,” Senior Adviser to President Joe Biden Gene Sperling defended President Biden’s refusal to negotiate with Republicans over the debt limit by stating that no one has “the right to say that we
On Thursday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) acknowledged that the stricter Medicaid work requirements in the House Republican debt ceiling bill “would save a lot of money,” having these work requirements “forces” people to work and
During an interview with NewsNation on Thursday, House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) noted that then-House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tied fiscal and spending talks to raising the debt limit in 2019 and refused to pass a clean debt
On Wednesday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) stated that the Medicaid work requirements in the House Republican debt ceiling bill are “part of the past” and “somewhat ludicrous and I think a bit aggressive,” and also
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that President Joe Biden is acting like people are going to starve and be deprived if the federal government goes to the funding levels
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Mitch Landrieu, a Senior Adviser to President Joe Biden, reacted to House Republicans passing a bill to raise the debt ceiling by stating that we can’t hold the economy hostage over the debt
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Daily,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that he’s “sure” President Joe Biden will invite House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to iron out a deal on the debt ceiling “when he thinks it’s the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) responded to then-House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tying budget negotiations and debt ceiling negotiations together in 2019 by arguing that Republicans should just raise the debt limit. After
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Biden 2024 Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) responded to a question on concerns about President Joe Biden’s age by stating that people should “watch how he conducts himself in negotiations with members
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released on Tuesday that the Limit, Save, Grow Act would reduce the deficit by $4.8 trillion over the next ten years.
On Monday’s “Fox News Rundown” podcast, House Majority Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) noted that President Joe Biden rejected debt ceiling increases without fiscal changes in the past, but since then, “his party has moved drastically to the
Then-Vice President Joe Biden boasted several times in 2011 about negotiating a debt limit standoff with Republicans — contrasting his current posture with House Republicans as president.
