{"id":25526,"date":"2023-05-30T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/30\/crucial-days-ahead-as-debt-ceiling-deal-goes-for-vote-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:06:15","slug":"crucial-days-ahead-as-debt-ceiling-deal-goes-for-vote-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/05\/30\/crucial-days-ahead-as-debt-ceiling-deal-goes-for-vote-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial days ahead as debt ceiling deal goes for vote in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> says he \u201cfeels good\u201d about the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-ceiling-deal-food-aid-student-loans-3c284b01d95f8e193bca8d873386400e\">debt ceiling and budget deal<\/a> negotiated with House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> as the White House and congressional leaders work to ensure its passage this week in time to lift the nation\u2019s borrowing limit and prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-limit-explained-8c9cbcd3d0c4a8fe989a0110f5159f7c\">a disastrous U.S. default<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden spent part of the Memorial Day holiday working the phones, calling lawmakers in both parties, as the president does his part to deliver the votes. A number of hard right conservatives are criticizing the deal as falling short of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/speaker-mccarthy-debt-biden-republicans-d4995f10a26d6c8bfa89a2bbfd1de93c\">the deep spending cuts they wanted<\/a>, while liberals decry policy changes such as <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-limit-work-requirements-snap-medicaid-biden-66270829cfc0009ddb5f59eb12a6ba7a\">new work requirements<\/a> for older Americans in the food aid program.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/2023\/05\/26\/vets-benefits-va-staff-paychecks-and-more-endangered-by-debt-fight\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP23143113769018.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Vets benefits, VA staff paychecks and more endangered by debt fight<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Negotiators will work through Memorial Day weekend in hopes of reaching a compromise on the issue before June 1.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key test will come Tuesday afternoon when the House Rules Committee is scheduled to consider the package and vote on sending it to the full House for a vote expected Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel very good about it,\u201d Biden told reporters Monday as he left Washington for his home in Delaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to a number of the members,\u201d he said, among them Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a past partner in big bipartisan deals who largely sat this one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI spoke to a whole bunch of people, and it feels good,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To those progressive Democrats raising concerns about the package, the president had a simple message: \u201cTalk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As lawmakers size up <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-ceiling-deal-food-aid-student-loans-3c284b01d95f8e193bca8d873386400e\">the 99-page bill<\/a>, few are expected to be fully satisfied with the final product. But Biden, a Democrat, and McCarthy, a Republican, are counting on pulling majority support from the political center, a rarity in divided Washington, to join in voting to prevent a catastrophic federal default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wall Street will open early Tuesday morning delivering its own assessment, as the U.S. financial markets that had been closed when <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-limit-deal-biden-mccarthy-default-01657c829be119850cd65ab9ffb0626a\">the deal was struck over the weekend<\/a> show their reaction to the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy acknowledged the hard-fought compromise with Biden will not be \u201c100% of what everybody wants\u201d as he leads a slim House majority powered by hard-right conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing potential blowback from his conservative ranks, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/debt-limit-speaker-mccarthy-biden-51c358b700d9588ea5122ea402b819dd\">the Republican speaker<\/a> will have to rely on upwards of half the House Democrats and half the House Republicans to push the debt ceiling package to passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the package is a tradeoff that would impose some spending reductions for the next two years along with a suspension of the debt limit into January 2025, pushing the volatile political issue past the next presidential election. Raising the debt limit, now $31 trillion, would allow Treasury to continue borrowing to pay the nation\u2019s already incurred bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, policy issues are raising the most objections from lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberal lawmakers fought hard but were unable to stop new work requirements for people 50 to 54 who receive government food assistance and are otherwise able-bodied without dependents. The Republicans demanded the bolstered work requirements as part of the deal, but some say the changes to the food stamp program are not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republicans were also pushing to beef up work requirements for health care and other aid; Biden refused to go along on those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions are also being raised about an unexpected provision that essentially gives congressional approval to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a natural gas project important to Sen. Joe Manchin, <a href=\"http:\/\/d-w.va\/\" target=\"_blank\">D-W.Va<\/a>., that many Democrats and others oppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, conservative Republicans including those from the House Freedom Caucus say the budget slashing does not go nearly far enough to have their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote,\u201d tweeted Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This \u201cdeal\u201d is insanity,\u201d said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C. \u201cNot gonna vote to bankrupt our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All told the package would hold spending essentially flat for the coming year, while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. It would cap growth at 1% for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Rules Committee has three members from the influential Freedom Caucus who may very well try to block the package from advancing, forcing McCarthy to rely on the Democrats on the panel to ensure the bill can be sent to the House floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House aims to vote Wednesday and send the bill to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer along with McConnell are working for a quick passage by week\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senators, who have remained largely on the sidelines during much of the negotiations between the president and the House speaker, began inserting themselves more forcefully into the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some senators are insisting on amendments to reshape the package from both the left and right flanks. That could require time-consuming debates that delay final approval of the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by the provision greenlighting the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, his office said in a statement. He plans to file an amendment to remove the provision from the package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina complained that the military spending increases are not enough. \u201cI will use all powers available to me in the Senate to have amendment votes to undo this catastrophe for defense,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But making any changes to the package at this stage seems highly unlikely with so little time to spare. Congress and the White House are racing to meet the Monday deadline now less than a week away. 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