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Political calculations and concerns about legislative precedent have brought the government to within a week of a potential debt default.

Republicans are trying to repeal President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, but does it even matter?

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said a vote on final passage would occur later Wednesday, but he declined to confirm he had enough votes.

WASHINGTON — Republicans from both edges of the party are pushing for changes to a leadership-assembled debt limit bill, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his team appear hesitant to open it back up ahead of a planned vote next week.

As some members signal trepidation about their votes, Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republicans are in “very good shape” to pass legislation.

“Most of us that I talked to that were in the Biden districts were supportive of it."

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are divided over the best mechanism for extending the debt limit deadline and how deep to cut spending in their nascent plan.

A push to repeal clean energy tax credits and IRS enforcement funding has emerged as a key sticking point in House GOP debt limit talks.

This year’s debt ceiling debate has a different feel to it for some lawmakers

Republicans on a House committee approved bills to set parents' rights on school issues and ban some transgender athletes from sports.

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell returned from an overseas trip to Europe and the Middle East steeled in his conviction to plow more U.S. investment into defending Ukraine, at a moment when the vocal populist wing of the Republican Party is calling an open-ended commitment unacceptable.