national debt

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Debt limit deadline looms as Democrats, GOP spar on spending | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats pressured Republicans on the increasingly menacing debt ceiling impasse Thursday, focusing on what they say will be painful reductions in government services if a bill the GOP recently pushed through the House becomes law. Republicans responded that they know the legal limit on government borrowing must be raised to avert […]

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Alabama

GOP rep: US defaulting on national debt a ‘real threat’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said the possibility of the U.S. defaulting on its national debt is a “real threat” as lawmakers grapple with a fast-approaching breach of the debt limit. “I think it is a real threat that both sides have to take serious,” Bacon said on ABC’s “This Week” in an interview with Jonathan […]

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Heated speaker contest shows high stakes of Rep. Tom Emmer’s U.S. House leadership role | National | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer spent the longest speaker election in more than a century trying to mend a bitter divide within the Republican Party. The Minnesotan has traded leading the House GOP’s campaign arm for the critical task of whipping votes in the narrow Republican majority. But before he could even be sworn […]

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