Veering away from a default crisis, the U.S. House approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package late Wednesday. The bill now heads to the Senate with passage expected by week's end.
Tensions ran high throughout the day as hard-right Republicans refused the deal, while Democrats said “extremist” GOP views were risking a debt default as soon as next week.
“God willing by the time I land, Congress will have acted, the House will have acted, and we’ll be one step closer,” he said. That wasn’t quite the case — the vote began about an hour and a half after Biden arrived in Colorado. Biden and McCarthy were counting on support from the political center, a rarity in divided Washington, testing the leadership of the Democratic president and the Republican speaker.
For weeks negotiators labored late into the night to strike the deal with the White House, and for days McCarthy has worked to build support among skeptics. At one point, aides wheeled in pizza at the Capitol the night before the vote as he walked Republicans through the details, fielded questions and encouraged them not to lose sight of the bill’s budget savings.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., leaves after talking to reporters about the closed-door meeting he had with fellow Democrats on the debt limit deal, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
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