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Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy vows to work ’24/7′ on a debt ceiling solution but House Republicans are about to take a Friday-Monday long weekend

By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, and others

FILE – Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., a key legislator working on the debt ceiling bill for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, walks past the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. A top debt ceiling negotiator for McCarthy said Friday, May 19, that it’s time to “press pause” on talks as negotiations with the White House came to an abrupt standstill at the Capitol. Graves, who was tapped by McCarthy to lead talks, emerged from the hour-long session saying there remain gaps between the House Republicans and the Democratic administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The GOP’s top debt limit negotiator says it’s time to ‘press pause’ on talks despite the looming deadline that could end in catastrophe

By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 16: U.S. Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) speaks to reporters as he laves a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden and congressional lawmakers continue to work on a deal to raise the debt ceiling ahead of the June 1 deadline, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the United States would default on their debts. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Meet the 4 negotiators doing the real work in the debt limit fight and whose dealmaking may usher in economic stability—or chaos

By Seung Min Kim, Kevin Freking, and others

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks from the chamber just after the Republican majority in the House narrowly passed a sweeping debt ceiling package as they try to push President Joe Biden into negotiations on federal spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans narrowly pass debt ceiling bill Democrats call a ‘ransom note’, in bid to force Biden to cut spending to avoid default

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at far left by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., holds an event to mark 100 days of the Republican majority in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 17, 2023. In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Republican leader accused President Joe Biden of refusing to engage in budget-cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden slams House Speaker McCarthy’s debt plan as ‘huge cuts to important programs’ used by millions of Americans

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Freedom Caucus

Republicans largely shrug off warnings on debt ceiling as they smell blood, saying Biden’s ‘poll numbers are in the tank and they’re going to keep going down’

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education Committee, talks to reporters after the House narrowly passed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights Act,” at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Speaker McCarthy demands that Biden negotiate on debt ceiling—but refuses to present his own budget proposals

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on improving rail safety in response to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

‘You must answer for the bank’s downfall’: Senators demand testimony from CEOs of failed Signature and Silicon Valley Bank

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Elizabeth Warren

The SVB blame game is infecting Capitol Hill: Democrats and Republicans are pointing the finger at each other

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

FILE – A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Elon Musk’s new Twitter verification system helped pro-Kremlin voices spread misleading claims after the Ohio train disaster

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Joe Biden

Biden’s chips incentives attacked as ‘woke’ by Republican senators

By Josh Boak, Kevin Freking, and others

UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 2: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is seen after the House voted to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, February 2, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ouster from House committee for alleged anti-Israel comments is called ‘racist gaslighting’ by her supporters

By Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Ilhan Omar

America may soon lose a Muslim, African-born lawmaker from its Foreign Affairs Committee: Ilhan Omar

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, and others

Adam Schiff

Speaker Kevin McCarthy vows to purge Trump foes Schiff and Swalwell from intelligence committee as they decry ‘political vengeance’

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

Lauren Boebert

‘This is actually, a really beautiful thing,’ Lauren Boebert says of the worst trainwreck electing a speaker of the House in 100 years

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press