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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday signaled that he may call off the House recess scheduled for next week to deal with the debt ceiling.

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he believes the Republican debt ceiling plan would have a “huge” impact on inflation.

A majority of Americans want the United States debt ceiling to be raised “only if lawmakers include terms on reducing the federal budget deficit,” according to an Associated Press-NORC poll.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden was “willing to tank the economy” over the debt ceiling debate.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) attempts to negotiate with the Biden administration on the debt ceiling were really “MAGA Republicans” “threatening to blow up the economy if we don’t do things exactly their way.”

The old adage that “politics ends at the water’s edge” was cast aside Sunday, when President Joe Biden began a press conference at the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, by attacking House Republicans over the debt limit.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed President Joe Biden amid debt ceiling negotiations and accused the president of preferring the United States default on its debts rather than cut federal spending.

On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) claimed that House Republican leaders “are threatening default if President Biden doesn’t give in to them.” And President Joe Biden should have the option of unilaterally getting the clean

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) reacted to calls from some Democrats for increased taxes on the wealthy as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling by pointing out that the House

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t think doing budgeting through negotiations over the debt ceiling is the best way to do things, “this is the only mechanism we seem to have,

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that he believes that there will be support among Democrats for spending caps in an agreement to raise the debt ceiling — like those that are a part

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that he would accept a deal to raise the debt ceiling even if it doesn’t require Republicans to meet Democrats halfway,

Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), who has been leading debt ceiling talks, said on Friday that Republicans would “pause” talks with the Biden White House on debt ceiling negotiations. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Surveillance,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to criticisms that President Joe Biden should have met with House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) about the debt ceiling sooner so that

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that it is President Joe Biden’s “patriotic duty” to use the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Democratic California U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) stated that if she was meeting with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Citi CEO Jane Fraser, and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan —

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is making the “unreasonable” demand in debt ceiling negotiations “to unleash more fossil fuels on America while states like mine

President Joe Biden left for overseas, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris to be briefed about the continuing debt ceiling talks.

China’s state-run Global Times had a field day on Wednesday, mocking President Joe Biden for canceling his trips to Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG).

A shocking poll found that more Americans blame President Joe Biden than House Republicans for the nation’s debt ceiling impasse. 

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) stated that “deep-pocketed special interests” “will start applying pressure to” Republicans to go along with Democrats on raising the debt ceiling without any spending

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) argued that House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — who is the only leader in Congress to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling — is the only

American Action Network (AAN), a nonprofit advocacy group with close ties to House Republican leadership, launched an ad campaign telling President Joe Biden to avoid a default and “compromise” with Republicans.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to questions on whether President Joe Biden would support stricter work requirements as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling by stating that work

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) “does not fully appreciate” the danger of Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling.

The White House on Tuesday canceled President Joe Biden’s planned trips to Papua New Guinea and Australia, which were to have taken place next week on his way home from the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that imposing work requirements for certain federal government benefit programs as part of a deal to raise the debt limit would be “cruel, especially as we see

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt stated that President Joe Biden is still not negotiating over the debt limit and “What the President has been open to throughout this process is a

President Joe Biden will end his upcoming foreign trip earlier than expected and return to the United States to continue negotiations on the debt ceiling, according to reports. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Tuesday that the “scope” of the debt ceiling negotiations with President Joe Biden is improving. 

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that would keep Arlington and other national cemeteries open if a debt ceiling is breached and there is a lapse in appropriations, Breitbart News has learned.

Polling shows the majority of American voters (59.2 percent) oppose raising the debt ceiling with and without there being some restrictions on government spending.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) wants to block members of Congress from being paid “until the debt ceiling crisis is resolved.”

President Joe Biden caved to Republicans and signaled that he could accept some reforms in a potential debt ceiling deal after months of refusing to negotiate any spending cuts or reforms.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday there is only $88 billion in extraordinary measures left for the government to pay its bills as of Wednesday, down from  $110 billion a week earlier.