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CQ Budget: Debt limit drama
Pressure for a deal to raise the debt limit is building as President Joe Biden meets with congressional leaders for a second time this week. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Laura Weiss and Ellyn Ferguson outline the latest on debt limit negotiations and wher
Political Theater: The most vulnerable 2024 incumbents, so far
It is a Roll Call tradition: identifying the most vulnerable House and Senate incumbents each election cycle. And for our first look at the franchise for 2024, we will discuss the 20 on the hot seat whom we have put on the list with Herb Jackson, Roll Cal
CQ Budget: Presidential engagement
After months of stalemate, President Joe Biden will sit down with the top four congressional leaders Tuesday to talk about how to raise the debt limit to avoid economic calamity next month when the government's borrowing authority is expected to run dry.
Political Theater: The White House Correspondents Dinner, explained
The White House Correspondents Dinner, the crown jewel of Washingtons spring prom season, roared back this past week, freed from many of the physical and psychological restraints of the COVID pandemic. But the pandemic is but one of the many turning poin
CQ Budget: Search for debt limit compromise
The House narrowly passed a Republican-backed bill to raise the debt limit into next year and force spending cuts. But Congress appeared no closer to a bipartisan deal needed by summer to extend the government's borrowing authority. CQ Roll Call's David L
Political Theater: You sunk my battleground! The 2024 campaign gets under way
President Joe Biden made it official this week: He is running for re-election. The 2024 presidential race will be determined largely in the same battlegrounds it did the last few elections. In some cases, that means the presidential race could have a down
CQ Budget: Test of unity
The Republican-controlled House plans to vote next week on GOP legislation to raise the debt limit and force spending cuts, in a major test of unity for the new House majority. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss outline the new deb
Political Theater: Nothing is simple in the Senate
Political Theater: Nothing is simple in the SenateNothing is simple in the SenateAh, the Senate. Anything you think should be simple never really is. Democrats there are trying to figure out what to do about the extended absence of Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Fintech Beat: UK Crypto Regulation (and MiCA)
Barney Reynolds walks through UK approaches to crypto, and how they diverge from the EU.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
CQ Budget: The politics of raising the debt limit
House Republicans are drafting legislation offering Democrats a debt limit increase combined with discretionary spending caps, tougher work requirements for food stamps, rescinding unspent pandemic aid, and more. CQ Roll Call's David Lerman, Peter Cohn an