House passes debt-ceiling bill, shifting focus to Senate
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House passes debt-ceiling bill, shifting focus to Senate
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The House voted Wednesday night to approve a bill that would raise the debt ceiling for more than two years, giving the Senate just days to do the same before the US potentially runs out of money to pay its bills.
The vote was 314-117, with more Democrats than Republicans offering their approval. There were 71 Republicans opposed and 46 Democrats who voted against it.
The concessions needed to get the deal done proved to be unpopular with certain members on both sides of the aisle, complicating efforts to squeeze legislation through Congress before a default on US debt. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that day could come as early as Monday.
“Every great nation that overextends itself has collapsed,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in a speech before the votes were counted Wednesday night.
President Biden in a statement praised “Speaker McCarthy and his team for negotiating in good faith.”
The agreement, he added, "is a bipartisan compromise. Neither side got everything it wanted."
The centerpiece of the legislation negotiated by McCarthy and Biden is a cap on federal spending. It would hold spending flat for 2024 and impose new limits for 2025 without touching Social Security or Medicare while boosting spending on the military by 3%.
The legislation would also increase work requirements in order to qualify for food assistance, an incentive for people to find jobs.
In exchange, the nation’s borrowing limit would be boosted for more than two more years. That would take the full faith and credit of the US off the negotiating table through the next presidential election and give the markets an extended breather on an issue that regularly threatens economic chaos.
Some House Republicans wanted the spending cuts to be deeper, as proposed in a separate piece of legislation passed by GOP lawmakers in April.
But Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, who was on McCarthy's negotiating team, called it 'the most conservative spending package during my time in Congress," adding that "for the first time in a debt-limit negotiation, the US will spend less money than it did the year before."
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