It's June 1st, 2023, and this is the 300th episode of the DSR Daily Brief.

I'm Chris Cotnor, our top stories from international outlets this morning.

The New York Times reports that the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation

negotiated by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt ceiling

and set federal spending limits as a broad bipartisan coalition lined up to cast a critical

vote to pull the nation back from the brink of economic catastrophe.

The bill would defer the federal debt limit for two years, allowing the government to

borrow unlimited sums as necessary to pay its obligations while imposing two years of

spending caps and a string of policy changes that Republicans demanded in exchange for

allowing the country to avoid a disastrous default.

The 314-117 vote came days before the nation was set to exhaust its borrowing limit and

days after a marathon set of talks between White House negotiators and top House Republicans

yielded a breakthrough agreement.

With both far-right and hard-left lawmakers in revolt over the deal, it fell to a bipartisan

coalition powered by Democrats to push the bill over the finish line, throwing their

support behind the compromise in an effort to break the fiscal stalemate that had gripped

Washington for weeks.

On the final vote, 149 Republicans and 165 Democrats backed the measure while 71 Republicans

and 46 Democrats opposed it.

According to the AP, the latest pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Kyiv killed at least three

people Thursday, including a nine-year-old child and her mother, Ukrainian officials, said.

Ukrainian air defenses shot down all ten cruise and ballistic missiles launched by the

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