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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy outside the White House following a meeting on the debt limit with President Joe Biden, on May 22, 2023. (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

What House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink

BY: - May 30, 2023

House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in government spending. So, based on the tentative deal announced on May 27, 2023, how did they do? In broad strokes, the deal would suspend the debt limit until January 2025, freeze nondefense discretionary funding at current levels […]