Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
DeSantis to mount first campaign swing through key 2024 states
By James Oliphant DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, following his presidential campaign debut online, will dive into old-school retail politicking in key early voting states ...
May 30, 2023
U.S. debt ceiling deal to face its first test in Congress
By Moira Warburton and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan deal to raise the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling faces its first test in Congress on Tuesday, setting up what could be a nail...
May 30, 2023
U.S. Republicans tee up debt-ceiling vote in Congress
By Kanishka Singh and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday laid plans to advance a debt-ceiling deal with Democratic President Joe Biden starting ...
May 29, 2023
US House Rules panel to meet Tuesday on debt ceiling bill
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House Rules Committee said it will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the debt ceiling bill, which needs to pass a narrowly divided Congress before J...
May 29, 2023
Latvians awake to surprise holiday after epic ice hockey result
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Latvians woke up to go to work on Monday morning, only to find they didn't have to. Their parliament had met at midnight to declare a holiday after the national ic...
May 29, 2023
Biden and McCarthy’s bumpy journey to a debt ceiling deal
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Kevin McCarthy was struggling early this year to get enough votes from his own Republicans to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democratic Pr...
May 28, 2023
Texas Senate to deliberate on impeached AG Ken Paxton
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - The Texas Senate on Sunday was set to begin deliberations to permanently remove from office Attorney General Ken Paxton, a conservative firebrand and ally of former President...
May 28, 2023
McCarthy says US debt ceiling deal popular with House Republicans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said he expects a debt ceiling deal he struck with the White House to attract support from a majority of House Republicans. McCarthy ...
May 28, 2023
US Representative Chip Roy says ‘we’re going to try’ to stop debt ceiling deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Chip Roy of Texas said on Sunday on Twitter that he intended to try to stop the debt ceiling deal in the U.S. House of Representatives. After tough negotiati...
May 28, 2023
McCarthy’s next challenge: sell debt ceiling deal in Congress
By Moira Warburton, Katharine Jackson and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After tough negotiations to reach a tentative deal with the White House on the U.S. borrowing limit, the next challenge f...
May 28, 2023
