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Joe Biden

Biden and McCarthy set for Monday crunch talks after start-stop weekend as debt crisis looms

By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, and others

US President Joe Biden arrives for a news conference following the Group of Seven (G-7) leaders summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sunday, May 21, 2023. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg pool via AP)

Why fixing the debt ceiling is a such struggle in Washington—and how the impasse could end

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, 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

Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Kevin McCarthy

There could be a deal on the debt ceiling by the weekend, negotiators say

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

Joe Biden

Biden confident that ‘America will not default’ as he praises ‘good faith’ talks with McCarthy on debt ceiling deal

By Seung Min Kim, Lisa Mascaro, and others

President Joe Biden speaks about the debt limit talks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says he’s ‘confident’ about an agreement to avoid a US debt default because ‘there’s no alternative’

By Seung Min Kim, Lisa Mascaro, and others

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and Vice President Kamala Harris listen as President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy name negotiators to broker debt ceiling deal, shifting talks into encouraging new phase

By Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, and others

FILE – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listen as President Joe Biden speaks before a meeting to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have very different views on what happened at their debt ceiling meeting

By Lisa Mascaro, Fatima Hussein, and others

Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden

Biden meets with congressional leaders as prospect of unprecedented default nears

By Zeke Miller, Seung Min Kim, and others

FILE – President Joe Biden talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., as they walk down the House steps as they leave after attending an annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon gathering at the Capitol in Washington, March 17, 2023. The Tuesday, May 9, White House sitdown between the president and congressional leaders will be the first substantive talks between Biden and McCarthy in months, and comes weeks after House Republicans voted on a bill that would raise the debt limit but impose significant federal spending cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden and McCarthy are in a standoff over the debt ceiling and something’s gotta give: ‘We have to avoid default, period. Full stop’

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

President Joe Biden waves after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 1, 2023, about National Small Business Week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden spars with Republicans over deep cuts in social programs in exchange for raising the debt ceiling

By Josh Boak, Lisa Mascaro, 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

Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy claims Republicans will ‘take action’ on ‘ticking time bomb’ of national debt —as GOP leverages debt ceiling for spending cuts

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press

George Santos

Why serial liar congressman George Santos refuses to quit: ‘Truth still matters’

By Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press