Author: Paul Kane

Washington Post – Politics:

Just a week earlier House Democrats were fuming mad over what they saw as a one-sided negotiation tilting toward Republicans. Then Wednesday night they embraced the compromise.

Washington Post – Politics:

Kevin McCarthy agreed to add three far-right conservatives to the Rules Committee in order to win enough votes to become House speaker. That trio now holds the fate of this legislation in their hands.

Washington Post – Politics:

President Biden declared that the final deal must be something he and the House speaker “can sell to both sides.” McCarthy faces the tougher test.

Washington Post – Politics:

Democrats have not made tax increases a central plank of their demands even as Republicans have vocally pushed for deep spending cuts.

Washington Post – Politics:

The Senate GOP leader saw three more acolytes ring up nominations for statewide races, but in the general election his ally faces off against a popular Democratic governor with national ambitions.

Washington Post – Politics:

The first-term senator has stepped up his campaign against the U.S. military, saying, ‘I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican.’

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The House speaker has spent so much time in the debt-ceiling standoff just pleading to be treated as an official worthy of respect.

Washington Post – Politics:

For years, lawmakers have dreaded voting to lift the federal debt limit, believing they would face brutal attack ads in their next election. Yet incumbents rarely face such ads.

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What’s lost in the back-and-forth din of congressional shouting is that House Republicans and Senate Democrats do not even agree on whether an actual negotiation is happening.