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Time now for the news with Kent coming.

On this vote, the years are 63. The days are 36. The 60 vote threshold having been achieved. The bill is passed with that vote in the Senate last night.

A bill to raise the federal debt ceiling is heading to the Oval Office for the president's signature. Senators pushed late into the evening passing the bill after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged fellow Republicans to back it.

It locks in promising reforms to infrastructure permitting. It caused back unspent COVID emergency funds. It slices bloated spending at the IRS.

But many Republicans argued that the bill dangerously cuts defense spending while allowing too much spending everywhere else. Senator Eric Schmidt.

I think we've got to start dealing with structural reform. We simply are spending too much money without the needed reform and that's why I'm not supporting the bill and it's current form.

The House passed the bill Wednesday night. President Biden said he'll waste no time signing it into law.

Hours earlier, the Senate voted to overturn the president's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loans for more than 40 million people.

Critics say the plan would effectively have many blue collar workers paying for the student loans of other Americans Republican Senator John Thun.

It's something of a slap in the face to Americans who chose more affordable college options or work their way through school to avoid taking on student loans.

Opponents also argue that the president doesn't have the authority to forgive the debt on his own with a stroke of a pen.

The vote was 52 to 46, two Democrats and one left leaning independent voted for the bill. They were senators Joe Manchin, John Tester and Kiersten Sinema.

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