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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been rated the least popular leader in Congress, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told Democrats he would allow an emergency debt limit extension into December, edging back from a perilous standoff by offering a potential path to avoid a federal default.

President Joe Biden floated the proposal Tuesday of getting rid of the filibuster rules in the Senate to raise the debt limit.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) contradicted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Tuesday by suggesting the debt ceiling “can’t” be raised with the reconciliation tactic.

A group of Republican senators led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill in the Senate that would establish a bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Afghanistan to investigate and compile a joint report on President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal which resulted in the death of 13 U.S. servicemembers.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Monday evening he is open to using debt limit reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling by October 18, undercutting Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) signals that the tactic “cannot” be used.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged President Joe Biden Monday to negotiate with congressional Democrats on the debt ceiling.

Democrats can reportedly pass a debt limit reconciliation package within two weeks to avert defaulting on the U.S. debt on October 18, but Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has objected to the process.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) kept the secret $1.5 trillion reconciliation signed deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) hidden from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) until this week, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) told CNN on Friday.

After the U.S. House failed to come to an agreement on President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda Thursday night, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Democrats will “need some additional time” despite having earlier hailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for being able to get bills “across the finish line.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a signed piece of paper in July promised Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) the reconciliation package would only cost $1.5 trillion.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) office released a statement — ahead of when the House is supposed to vote on the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill — reaffirming her position on not supporting the partisan $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats are using to push part of their agenda.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday confirmed to reporters his topline number for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is $1.5 trillion.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday the Senate “cannot” use reconciliation to raise the debt ceiling.

Senate Republicans blocked a government spending and debt ceiling bill Monday, setting up a dramatic showdown between Republicans and Democrats on whether Congress should raise the debt ceiling while Democrats plan to spend trillions on infrastructure and social spending. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are gridlocked on legislative measures while the Democrat party grows “infuriated.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has set a Monday vote to avoid government shutdown, though not enough “yes” votes have signaled they intend to pass the measure. 

The $3.5 trillion radical reconciliation package continues to create infighting between the “moderate” and far-left Democrats, who are trying to sway House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in different ways, as the White House steps in to save the legislation.

Facing growing unrest in the Democrat party, President Joe Biden plans to host meetings at the White House on Wednesday to save his $5 trillion domestic spending agenda.

Pro-amnesty Democrats and their pro-migration corporate allies are exploiting the media uproar over horse-mounted officers at the border to demand even easier migration into the U.S. economy.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday said “hateful and xenophobic policies” from former President Donald Trump are to blame for President Joe Biden’s disastrous mishandling of increasing waves of illegal border crossings.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday amnesty and migrants are needed to prevent labor shortages.

Democrats plan to pack a provision raising the debt ceiling in the government funding bill, setting up a clash with congressional Republicans.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that President Joe Biden and the Democrat-led Congress should take a “strategic pause” from the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill, according to Axios.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” called the Republican-led state legislatures voter laws “evil.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday he is not “bluffing” on Senate Republicans’ stand on the debt ceiling. 

Revamped voting rights legislation was unveiled Tuesday by Senate Democrats eager to pass sweeping federal election reforms as the prospect of a GOP filibuster looms larger.

The fences that once surrounded the U.S. Capitol will return “temporarily” before the rally takes place on September 18.

Top Democrats are now calling on President Biden to lobby for “filibuster reform” in order to ram through the legislation this time around.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he will not vote for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that the Democrats are trying to pass as a companion bill to the infrastructure package.

The Senate’s parliamentarian will hold a formal hearing on Friday where Democrats will claim they can insert four gigantic amnesties in the pending $3.5 trillion budget bill.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has denied Sen. Joe Manchin’s request for a “strategic pause” regarding the $3.5 trillion Trojan horse reconciliation package due to the bill’s importance.

Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) said Tuesday that he would not support the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill if Democrats would not increase the deduction for the state and local tax (SALT), which primarily benefits wealthy, Democrat states.

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Susan Wild (PA), who wanted to cancel rent payments in 2020 at the height of the Chinese coronavirus, has reportedly collected up to $110,000 in rental income from a corporation that had previously lost its LLC status.

Poor migrants work for as little as $5 per hour and drown in flooded New York basements, according to two articles by seven reporters in Sunday’s online Washington Post.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blamed climate change after Hurricane Ida’s remnants caused historic flooding in New York City, leaving multiple people dead.