House votes to pass debt limit bill to avoid default, sends Biden-McCarthy deal to Senate

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JUST IN: The House voted to pass a debt ceiling and budget cuts package, a crucial step in averting a potential default just days away.

late Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans against fierce conservative blowback and progressive dissent.

But amid discontent from Republicans who said the spending restrictions did not go far enough, McCarthy said it is only a "first step." Biden sent top White House officials to the Capitol to shore up backing. McCarthy worked to sell skeptical fellow Republicans, even fending off challenges to his leadership, in the rush to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.

Top GOP deal negotiator Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana said Republicans were fighting for budget cuts after Democrats piled onto deficits with extra spending, first during the COVID-19 crisis and later with Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, with its historic investment to fight climate change. A much larger conservative faction, the Republican Study Committee, declined to take a position. Even rank-and-file centrist conservatives were unsure, leaving McCarthy searching for votes from his slim Republican majority.Biden spoke directly to lawmakers, making calls from the White House.

 

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