Category: Republicans

House Freedom Caucus Republicans Sounds Alarm on Debt Ceiling Agreement

Some members of the House Freedom Caucus said that a proposed deal announced by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to raise the debt ceiling for two years ahead of a possible federal government default doesn’t go far enough. Negotiators are now racing to finalize the bill’s text. McCarthy said Saturday that House will vote on the…


House Freedom Caucus Republicans Sound Alarm on Debt Ceiling Agreement

Some members of the House Freedom Caucus said that a proposed deal announced by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to raise the debt ceiling for two years ahead of a possible federal government default doesn’t go far enough. Negotiators are now racing to finalize the bill’s text. McCarthy said Saturday that House will vote on the…


McCarthy Confident He Can Win Enough Votes for Tentative Debt Ceiling Deal

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he’s confident he can garner the votes for a tentative debt ceiling deal between Republicans and President Joe Biden. On the evening of May 27, McCarthy announced during a press conference that he and Biden had reached what he called “an agreement in principle that’s worthy of…


‘Surrender’: Chorus of Republicans Disappointed With Debt Ceiling Agreement

Many Republicans are expressing their disappointment over some of the components inside the tentative debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). McCarthy clarified details of the deal in a late Saturday night call with his GOP colleagues. A chorus of House Republicans took to Twitter to share their disappointment,…


McCarthy: White House, Republicans Reach Debt Ceiling Agreement ‘In Principle’

The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Saturday evening. “We still have a lot of work to do. But I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of American people,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill. “That’s historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms…


McCarthy: White House, Republican Leaders Reach Debt Ceiling Agreement ‘In Principle’

The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Saturday evening. “We still have a lot of work to do. But I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of American people,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill. “That’s historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms…


White House, Republican Leaders Reach Debt Ceiling Agreement ‘In Principle’

The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Saturday evening. “We still have a lot of work to do. But I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of American people,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill. “That’s historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms…


Major Update on Debt Ceiling Talks

The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Saturday evening. “We still have a lot of work to do. But I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of American people,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill. “That’s historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms…


Texas AG Ken Paxton Impeached by GOP-Controlled State House

The Republican-controlled Texas House has voted to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and sent 20 articles of impeachment to the state Senate. It makes Paxton only the third sitting official in Texas’s nearly 200-year history to have been impeached. “BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of Texas, That Warren Kenneth…


Congressional Witness Calls Red State Election Reforms ‘Voter Suppression’

“The 2022 election failed black voters,” said National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney Deuel Ross in a May 24 Congressional subcommittee hearing on elections. Ross testified that since the 2020 election 400 bills were introduced in state legislatures around the country to “restrict the franchise.” He said 24 states had actually…