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🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Debt ceiling stalemate and Biden makes it official. |
0:05.8 | We lift the debt limit. |
0:07.1 | We've sent it to the Senate. |
0:09.0 | We've done our job. |
0:10.7 | In his first major test to speaker, Kevin McCarthy secures a notable win. |
0:17.1 | Successfully, but narrowly passing his debt limit and spending cuts package, but Democrats |
0:25.1 | reject the bill and the path forward in the high-stakes stalemate over the nation's |
0:29.8 | debt ceiling is unclear, plus, President Biden makes it official announcing his 2024 |
0:40.4 | re-election bid. |
0:41.6 | We're going to have beat him in the ballot box and we're going to settle our unfinished |
0:46.7 | business. |
0:47.8 | And former President Trump, the current frontrunner for the Republican nomination, goes on the |
0:52.5 | attack. |
0:53.5 | Next. |
0:55.0 | This is Washington Week. |
1:01.8 | Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. |
1:03.9 | I'm Laura Burrone-Lopas. |
1:06.1 | President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are locked in a high-stakes standoff |
1:10.5 | over raising the nation's debt limit, with weeks to go before the federal government |
1:14.8 | is unable to pay its bills. |
1:17.2 | The two men have challenged each other for months as the deadline draws near, with the |
1:21.8 | president calling for a clean increase to the debt limit and a separate GOP budget plan. |
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