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Biden signs bill to raise debt ceiling

Joe Biden approved legislation raising the debt ceiling until early December. He signed the measure Thursday ahead of an October 18 deadline to avoid defaulting on the debt limit.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the ranking member, center right, make opening statements as the tax-writing panel continues work on the Democrats' sweeping proposal for tax hikes on big corporations and the wealthy to fund President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion domestic rebuilding plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rep. Brady calls out Biden, Dems on infrastructure

House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) slammed Joe Biden and congressional Democrats for their proposal on the infrastructure package.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen addresses a hybrid meeting hosted by President Joe Biden with corporate chief executives and members of his cabinet to discuss the looming federal debt limit in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 06, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Yellen: The U.S. should never be in the position to invoke 14th Amendment on extending debt limit

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. should never be in a position where they consider revoking the Fourteenth Amendment to avoid the debt limit. During an interview on Sunday, Yellen said the White House interfering in matters of debt would be a “disastrous situation.”

President Donald Trump and Joe Biden speak during the first presidential debate at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Morry Gash-Pool/Getty Images)

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Biden denies President Trump request to invoke executive privilege on documents regarding Jan. 6 protests

Joe Biden’s White House vowed to work with House Democrats with their investigation into President Trump’s role in the January 6 protest. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the presidential record keepers were ordered to hand over Trump-era documents to the committee.

US President Joe Biden signs three proclamations restoring protections stripped by the Trump administration for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts national monuments, on the North Lawn of the White House on October 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Biden signs bill to boost support for Havana Syndrome victims

Joe Biden signed a new act into law aimed at providing more support to victims of the mysterious Havana Syndrome. In a statement on Friday, the White House said the bipartisan bill would help ensure the most was done to provide for U.S. government personnel who have experienced these abnormal health incidents.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks at a press conference outside his office on Capitol Hill on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Manchin spoke on the debt limit and the infrastructure bill. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Moderate and progressive Democrats duke it out over Hyde Amendment

A new point of contention has surfaced for the already divided Democrat Party in the debate over the $3.5 trillion spending plan, that being the Hyde Amendment. Joe Biden took a weak stance on whether abortions should be federally funded on Tuesday.

Joe Biden speaks about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and his Build Back Better agenda at the International Union of Operating Engineers Training Facility in Howell, Michigan, on October 5, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

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Biden: My agenda is about American competitiveness

Joe Biden rallied support for his domestic agenda in Michigan. The Democrat visited a union training facility northwest of Detroit in Howell on Tuesday.

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Republicans to Biden Democrats on debt: You’re on your own

The U.S. treasury is expected to be depleted by October 18, which is stirring up a frenzied attempt by the White House to rally Congress into action. One America’s Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion has more from the White House.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, with Republican Senators John Barrasso (left) and John Thune (right), arrives to speak to reporters after the Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.cC) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Senate leaders face-off in fight over debt ceiling

The debate has heated up in the upper chamber as senators from both sides sparred over the debt ceiling. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took aim at one another amid the battle over who had control over the U.S. economy.

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