Obama agreed to $2.1 trillion in spending cuts to end 2011 debt ceiling crisis. Here's what happened...
CNN.com· 6 days agoThe Republican House speaker, pushed by conservatives in his party, demands deep spending cuts. It’s...
False claim Trump increased debt more than any president | Fact check
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoExperts say it is difficult to determine how much debt one president is responsible for since ...
Why Spending Cuts Likely Won’t Shake the Economy
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWASHINGTON — The last time the United States came perilously close to defaulting on its debt, a Democratic president and a Republican speaker of the...
"This isn't the end": McCarthy takes aim at Social Security, Medicare after debt ceiling deal
Salon.com· 3 days agoAfter securing a debt ceiling agreement that caps federal spending and threatens food aid for...
5 winners and 5 losers from the debt ceiling deal
Vox· 3 days agoThe deal passed the House in an overwhelming bipartisan vote Wednesday night, and the Senate by a vote of 63 to 36 Thursday night. Domestic spending will...
Letter: Fiscally Irresponsible GOP
Arizona Daily Star· 5 days agoRepublicans are not "fiscal conservatives". Holding the Debt Ceiling hostage while demanding cuts in spending is purely political theater and hypocrisy. In December 2017 Republicans passed tax cuts (reducing revenue)
Republicans Don’t Really Want to Cut Spending
The Atlantic· 4 days agoThe first bullet point captured what was supposedly the whole point of the negotiations for the GOP: The newly christened Fiscal Responsibility Act would...
The Debt-Ceiling Deal Buys Biden Time at a Terrible Long-Term Cost
New York Magazine· 6 days agoPresident Biden negotiated the ransom for freeing the debt ceiling down to about the lowest possible...
McCarthy and Biden's debt-ceiling deal could hurt student-loan borrowers and people on food stamps —...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 days agoUnlike in 2011, when a similar deal was struck between President Barack Obama and Speaker John...
Democrats Hatch Plans to End ‘Insanity’ of Debt-Ceiling Fights
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoHouse had bitter memories of 2011, when House Republicans used the debt ceiling as leverage against...
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