McCarthy earned his stripes as Republican speaker of the House, navigating fierce hardline opposition to pass a debt ceiling bill containing federal spending limits that Biden for months vowed to resist. Debt ceiling win secures McCarthy's standing:
46th and current president of the United StatesWASHINGTON - Kevin McCarthy earned his stripes as Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, navigating fierce hardline opposition to pass a debt ceiling bill containing federal spending limits that President Joe Biden for months vowed to resist.
Yet it was a bruising victory for McCarthy. The bill gained 165 votes from Democrats, outnumbering the 149 from members of McCarthy's own Republican party. McCarthy has so far succeeded in passing the bill without drawing direct verbal attacks from former President Donald Trump, who urged Republicans to push for a default if they were not able to extract sufficient concessions from Democrats.Trump, who is seeking a return to the White House in 2024, had blasted top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell for agreeing to raise the debt ceiling during Biden's first year in office.
But in getting the April measure passed, House Republicans became the only body in Washington that had acted to raise the debt ceiling.
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