Sentences with phrase «fight over the debt ceiling»

For example, a legislative fight over the debt ceiling and the delayed sequester will take place in February.

Not exact matches

The same thing happened over the 2011 debt ceiling fight.

Foreign demand for Treasury debt is expected to stay strong this year, helped by a congressional agreement to avoid a fight over the U.S. debt ceiling until March 2015.

Republican House leaders were facing a losing public relations fight with the White House over the debt ceiling that would have gotten far worse if the government had begun to default on some if its obligations.

They'd come to urge the president to protect programs for the poor amid his fight with Congress over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

During a Seante leadership news conference today in DC, Senator Chuck Schumer joked that the House Republicans have mellowed since their recent retreat to Williamsburg, Virginia, where the conference decided not to fight the White House over raising the debt ceiling.

The House is likely headed for some bitter fights over the budget and debt ceiling, procedural rules, and more.

Both have said they want to move forward with tax reform before they go, and the fight over raising the federal debt ceiling, which is expected to be reached this fall, provides a possible trigger event for them and other lawmakers to come to agreement on big tax changes, said Birnbaum.