In the House, a majority of each party's members — 149 Republicans and 165 Democrats — voted to pass the bill. Seventy-one Republicans and 46 Democrats voted against it. Four members did not vote.

Congress last addressed the debt ceiling in June 2023 as part of a legislative package negotiated by President Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Hard-right Republicans, still angry with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s handling of the debt ceiling bill last week, sank a GOP procedural vote Tuesday in a show of strength in a razor-thin ...

Republican leaders briefed reporters on the debt ceiling agreement. They talked about drawbacks in the agreement and outlined future courses of action to further reduce federal spending and ...

The White House is eyeing this summer's debt ceiling's "X-date" as a forcing mechanism to push the "one big, beautiful bill" through Congress. "Gun to the head, the whole agenda, and the country's ...

But the House Republicans’ refusal to work by everyone else’s parameters — on display repeatedly throughout the year — also increases the likelihood of a shutdown.

White House officials, over the course of the painstaking negotiations, viewed the issue as largely a wash – and one that brought them to the brink of a final agreement.

The House approved the debt ceiling bill, and it will now head to the Senate. This is brushing up against the deadline for when the U.S. is projected to run out of money to pay its bills: June 5.

Assistant House Minority Leader James Clyburn said that President Obama should veto any short-term deal to raise the debt ceiling and sign an executive order to invoke the 14th Amendment.