How the debt ceiling deal got done
Right up until the end, the White House was exploring contingency plans in case the high-stakes talks with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and avert economic disaster collapsed. The White House was considering the unprecedented step of bypassing Congress altogether and invoking the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which states that المزيد
Debt ceiling live updates: Negotiators ‘worked until midnight’
Jayapal says Dems were told they could be called back to D.C. as early as Sunday Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., emerged from a closed-door Democratic caucus meeting on Thursday and said she and her colleagues were told the earliest they would have to return to Washington, D.C. is Sunday. “We المزيد