Author: Katharine Jackson

WASHINGTON • White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion. Sullivan, in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said President Joe Biden will have intensive talks with…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans say they would not cut Social Security and Medicare programs but “everything else is on the table” in talks over raising U.S. government borrowing limits, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Sunday. “We need to shore those programs up. They’re running out of money. But at the end of the…

WASHINGTON • Any agreement to address the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever default by Washington will have to come from President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the top Senate Republican said Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has played an integral role in debt ceiling negotiations in the…