The Latest Breaking News from Kevin McCarthy

By temperament and manner, Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell are decidedly mismatched

Greene will sit on House homeland security committee, Gosar on natural resources and both on oversight

The New York fabulist has been assigned to the small business and the science, space and technology committees

The plum postings for Republican rebels fulfill a key concession McCarthy made.

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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called on Democrats to engage in talks with Republicans over a fiscal plan including an increase in the federal debt limit, while the White House reiterated its rejection of such negotiations, highlighting the risk of a market-rattling battle over the ceiling later this year.

He joins small business and space committees, which critics joked was a great get for a ‘successful entrepreneur and astronaut’ like the embattled GOP congressman

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called on Democrats to engage in talks with Republicans over a fiscal plan including an increase in the federal debt limit, while the White House reiterated its rejection of such negotiations, highlighting the risk of a market-rattling battle over the ceiling later this year.

The federal government is on the brink of hitting its legal borrowing limit on Thursday