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  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gives two thumbs up as the Senate votes to approve a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Politics

    Government shutdown avoided as Biden signs temporary funding bill rushed through Congress

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    It looks like Congress will avoid a government shutdown as McCarthy backs down, passes funding with Democratic votes

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans after his last-ditch plan to keep the government temporarily open collapsed yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. A new vote is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    House passes 45-day funding plan, sends it to Senate as Kevin McCarthy says, ‘We’re going to keep government open’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to avert government shutdown fails

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • FILE – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the chamber for procedural votes to advance appropriations bills, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday night, Sept. 26, 2023. McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday, Sept. 30. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    House Speaker McCarthy refuses to take up Senate bill to avert government shutdown, virtually guaranteeing one

    By Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves, and others
  • FILE – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. McCarthy is studying history and considering the appointment of a mix of lawmakers and business leaders to a new commission to tackle the nation’s soaring debt. McCarthy is fresh off his biggest political victory since becoming speaker. He got the White House to agree to a debt limit suspension that also contained some $1.5 trillion in deficit savings. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Politics

    Republican House Speaker McCarthy wants a new commission to tackle U.S. debt, but Democrats worry it’s a plan to pursue ‘ideological trophies’

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a hectic series of amendment votes and final passage on the big debt ceiling and budget cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law before the fast-approaching default deadline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Senate passes Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal with just days to spare before U.S. hits default date

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. as the House moves toward passage of the debt limit bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    The Senate is racing to meet the looming debt ceiling deadline before a catastrophic default as they vow to ‘keep working until the job is done’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of R-Calif., speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R.La., left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listen at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    The Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal that no one liked sails through the House, leaving the Senate as the final hurdle

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., left, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speak with reporters as member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus talk about the debt limit deal, during a news conference, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Politics

    Biden and House Speaker McCarthy scramble for votes as debt ceiling deal comes down to the wire

    By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others
  • FILE – Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has blasted the tentative debt deal struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden and says he will try to stop it in the House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Finance

    Debt ceiling agreement gets cheers from business, but conservative Republicans hate it

    By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthyPolitics

    Debt ceiling deal: What’s in, what’s out

    By Kevin Freking, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks after reaching a debt deal with Biden.Finance

    Congress has just days to approve a Biden-McCarthy debt-ceiling deal and avoid calamity: ‘I’ll debate this bill with anybody’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden and McCarthy have a debt ceiling ‘agreement in principle’

    By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden ‘optimistic’ on debt ceiling deal as Yellen warns of default days away

    By Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, and others