Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
US Democrats hold to ‘clean’ debt limit hike with no spending cuts attached -Schumer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats' position "remains the same" on the need to pass a "clean" bipartisan increase in the government's debt ceiling, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tues...
May 02, 2023
Explainer-Could Biden avert a debt default by using the 14th Amendment?
By Andy Sullivan and Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The divided U.S. Congress is running out of time to raise the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with the Treasury Departm...
May 02, 2023
Analysis-Biden travel, Congress recess to squeeze debt limit timeline even more
By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For months, the U.S. crisis over the debt limit has been a political abstraction. Not anymore. The U.S. Treasury's new June 1 estimated dead...
May 02, 2023
Senator Manchin introduces new U.S. energy permitting bill
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin introduced on Tuesday his latest measure to speed permitting of both fossil fuel and renewable energy projects, as he tries to win su...
May 02, 2023
Senate panel to examine US Supreme Court ethics as questions swirl
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ethics concerns relating to U.S. Supreme Court justices are set to be scrutinized on Tuesday by a Senate panel during a hearing called amid revel...
May 02, 2023
US lawmakers dig into partisan corners as debt ceiling default looms
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers responded to news that the federal government could be unable to pay its bills as soon as June 1 by digging in on partisan posit...
May 01, 2023
Schumer sets expedited process to consider clean debt ceiling suspension
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday set in motion an expedited process for the chamber to consider a clean two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling, a Sch...
May 01, 2023
US Senate Republican urges Biden, McCarthy to meet on debt ceiling: ‘Time is a-wastin’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No. 2 U.S. Senate Republican John Thune on Monday said the news that the federal government could no longer be able to pay its bills as soon as June 1 was an urgent signal that ...
May 01, 2023
White House considers two key nominations at the Fed – NYT
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is closing in on two nominations for the Federal Reserve's Board and is likely to nominate Adriana Kugler for the position of governor and Philip Jefferson as the ...
May 01, 2023
Factbox: U.S. debt ceiling: A ‘clean’ increase is not the rule
(Reuters) - The U.S. federal government is ticking closer to its "x-date," when it will no longer be able to pay its bills and risk a default that would shake the world economy. Republicans in the Hou...
May 01, 2023
