by James Fite | Mar 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
A package of six full-year funding bills has cleared the US House ahead of the Friday deadline. After a fourth continuing resolution for fiscal year 2024, Friday, March 8 was the deadline to either pass the first half of the 12 annual spending bills, punt with yet...
by James Fite | Jun 3, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Friday night in his first ever primetime Oval Office address to tout the latest debt limit deal. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which Biden plans to sign later today, cleared the Senate 63-36 Thursday, June 1, after passing...
by James Fite | Jun 1, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The debt limit deal worked out between House leadership and President Joe Biden has passed and is headed to the Senate. The bill, which both Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) laud as a bipartisan compromise that works for America, cleared the lower chamber...
by Mark Angelides | May 23, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
With just a week to go before a possible default on the nation’s spiraling debt, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) once again failed to come to a compromise. Displaying all the drama of a “will they, won’t they” 80s romcom, the two leaders...
by James Fite | May 20, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Friday’s stop-and-go debt limit negotiations ended with no sign of progress and no future meetings on the matter scheduled. The GOP had paused the talks earlier in the day, presumably a sign the proceedings were going nowhere fast, but negotiators came back to the...