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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)

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)

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)

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)

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

By Kevin Freking and The Associated Press

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

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.

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 Biden

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

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others

Joe Biden

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

By Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, and others

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (L) looks on as US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on the debt ceiling

Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy are ‘dug in’ on opposing debt ceiling positions with deadline looming

By Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, and others

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