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    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
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      Where have all the Democrats gone? Premium content

      Party loyalists on the coasts continue to remain out of touch with Middle America

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      US politics & policy
      US Senate passes bill to end debt ceiling stand-off and avoid default

      Legislation heads to Biden for his signature just four days before Treasury deadline

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
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      Game, set and almost match to Biden on the debt ceiling

      Republican drama barely dents US president’s agenda

    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
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      What is in the US debt ceiling deal?

      Democrats and Republicans have made compromises to head off a damaging default

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

      The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
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      McCarthy’s big test: keeping Republicans unified in debt ceiling battle

      House Speaker has kept his party behind him so far, but pressure has grown as deadline for a potential default nears

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
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      Both sides agree to continue discussions as deadline for potential default grows closer

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      The Democrat has failed to convince conservative West Virginians that Biden’s clean energy subsidies will help them

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
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      America is hurt by its debt ceiling theatre of the absurd

      The only reason a default is conceivable is the depth of disagreement in the country

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
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      Scope of agreement begins to emerge as talks intensify in bid to avoid unprecedented national default

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      Biden refuses Republican preconditions for raising $31tn borrowing cap ahead of White House talks

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      The party dominating politics in America’s third-largest city is offering two very different visions

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    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
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      Democrats were once the party ‘in love’ with ideological purity. The shoe is on the other foot

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
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