US seals a debt deal with just days to go and averts the risk of ruinous default
Speaker Kevin McCarthy can claim a win, as can President Joe Biden in debt deal. Photo: Bloomberg
Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs and Erik Wasson
White House and Republican negotiators reached a tentative deal over the weekend to raise the US debt ceiling and avert a default that threatened to send tremors through the global economy.
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