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    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US government shutdown fight puts new Israel and Ukraine aid in doubt

      With days to go, Congress is still without a deal to boost funding for allies at war

      Speaker of the House Mike Johnson delivers a prayer during a bipartisan candlelight vigil to commemorate one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      McCarthy avoids US government shutdown

      Brazil walks a tightrope between conservation and oil and gas exploration

    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Republican Party US
      Republican hardliner moves to oust McCarthy over deal to avert shutdown

      Party’s far-right angry over compromise with Democrats that keeps government funded another 45 days

      Matt Gaetz speaking to journalists
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      US lawmakers pass short-term deal to avoid government shutdown

      Agreement to maintain funding until mid-November leaves out billions of dollars in Ukraine aid

      Tom Emmer, Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik at the Capitol
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      US on brink of shutdown as Republicans defeat funding bill

      Dissidents’ vote against their party’s own stop-gap measure is blow to House Speaker McCarthy as Saturday budget deadline looms

      Kevin McCarthy
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Explainer
      The radical Republicans willing to shut down Washington

      Trump loyalists in Congress have taken the US federal government to the brink of paralysis

    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      US economy
      What the US shutdown means

      The definition of insanity

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      The FTC is primed for Amazon

      JPMorgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands and Jes Staley

    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Moody’s warns federal shutdown would be ‘negative’ for US debt rating

      Report comes as hopes for congressional deal to avert crisis fade

      A sign in the US Capitol tells visitors that the building is closed for all tours
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Lawmakers warn that US is heading for shutdown as budget talks stall

      The economy could take a hit in less than a week if hardline Republic holdouts do not strike a deal

      Kevin McCarthy
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      US government heads for shutdown as Republicans squabble over spending

      Millions will be furloughed in a week’s time if no deal is struck with small group of conservative holdouts

      Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters at the Capitol
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Joe Biden averts a disastrous default

      The sooner America scraps its nonsensical debt ceiling the better

      Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, and President Joe Biden meet in the White House
    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      US economy
      What a debt ceiling deal means for the US economy

      Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      White House reaches deal with Republicans to avert US debt default

      Biden and McCarthy agree on terms to raise borrowing limit but must still convince sceptical members of their parties

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden and McCarthy speak in bid to reach debt ceiling deal

      President and Republican House leader try to narrow differences as talks to avoid US default drag on

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden urges Republicans to ditch ‘extreme’ stance as debt talks resume

      President to meet House Speaker McCarthy on Monday as deadline to avoid default approaches

      Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker
    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      A debt ceiling debacle might actually be good for Treasuries

      For real. Hear us out

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden urges Republicans to drop default threat in debt ceiling talks

      First meeting with leaders fails to yield a breakthrough with weeks to go before country breaches borrowing limit

      Joe Biden
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Political calculus complicates path to US debt ceiling deal

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

      Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Yellen warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ over US debt ceiling impasse

      Treasury secretary says circumventing Congress with 14th amendment was ‘among the not-good options’

      Janet Yellen
    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Debt ceiling diehard in rural Virginia vows to ‘call Democrats’ bluff’

      Republican congressman Bob Good’s hardline stance wins local support

      Republican congressman Bob Good visits Deep Roots Milling at Woodson’s Mill in Nelson county, Virginia
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      US politics & policy
      US House Republicans pass debt ceiling bill in victory for Speaker McCarthy

      Passage of law will do little to break stalemate with White House

      Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to media while walking
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      US budget
      US government risks defaulting on debt as soon as July, agency warns

      Congressional Budget Office forecast comes amid growing political war of words over lifting borrowing limit

      Joe Biden
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      US economy
      Wall Street warns of riskiest US debt limit showdown since 2011

      JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs fear repeat of confrontation that resulted in downgrade of country’s credit rating

      Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Washington’s perilous debt ceiling impasse

      Congress must agree to raise the limit — and then ditch it for a saner measure

      Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy swears-in members of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber
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