McConnell outlines framework of potential debt deal

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said that congressional leaders and the White House were “very, very close” to reaching agreement on a deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling, two days from a looming deadline set by the Treasury Department by which Congress must act ...

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