This week marks the biggest test yet for the speakership of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. McCarthy needs to show that he can keep his members together to approve the Republican version of a ...

House Democrats need at least five Republican defections for their debt ceiling backup plan to prevail. So far, Republicans don’t appear to be interested. The plan, which was teased in a letter to ...

If the debt ceiling deal hammered out between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, passes Congress and is signed into law by the president, the pause on federally funded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy briefed House Republicans on the outlines of a bill to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for ...