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The 99-page legislation brokered by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden cleared the House on Wednesday night on a 314-117 bipartisan vote.
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GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) reveal the strategies they used to convince House Republicans to back McCarthy & Biden's debt deal.
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President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced enormous peril from the default standoff. But they seem to be coming out ahead.
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 Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyIt's always darkest just before dawn, a proverb that says when times are at their worst they will soon get better. Current events bear that out.
The GOP-led Texas legislature voted to impeach the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton on corruption charges. President Joe Biden reached a debt ceiling deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
These are outcomes that demonstrate even the most MAGA Republicans have a limit; politics can change on a dime, and Biden's half-century of experience taught him how to find that dime. It's why we elected him, even if we don't love him.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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An overwhelming bipartisan coalition pushed through the compromise struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden, even as lawmakers in both parties signaled displeasure with the plan.
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The Congressional Budget Office score does not include side deals hashed out between the Biden administration and Speaker McCarthy.
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