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The debt agreement, they say, violated a promise to cut spending that secured crucial support for U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
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The Florida governor’s events in six cities are drawing some of the state’s biggest Republican donors.
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The defense team includes the agency’s chief appellate lawyer and head of its general litigation division.
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The move, basically telling the Senate to take the House bill or leave it, could exacerbate already heightened tensions at the Capitol.
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