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The U.S. House and Senate have now both approved the deal struck by President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy to suspend the nation’s debt limit through 2025 in exchange for a range of cuts sought by Congressional Republicans. While the deal is not as draconian as the debt bill that passed the House earlier this spring, it includes no new revenues even though tax cuts of the past few decades have been the primary driver of deficit growth. And one provision of the deal—to claw back important funding to crack down on wealthy tax cheats—would actually increase the deficit while continuing the rig the system in favor of the most well-off.

The deal contains a $21.4 billion cut to IRS funding for tax enforcement. This includes an immediate $1.4 billion cut, and a side deal to cut, over the next two years, a quarter of the $80 billion in new funding the IRS received last year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

A North Carolina pastor and his son have been charged with dealing drugs out of a church, according to a report.

Josh Price, 50, a pastor at South Side Baptist Church in Lexington, was arrested along with his son Matthew Price, 28, after deputies allegedly seized about 12 pounds of marijuana, nearly 32 grams of psilocybin mushrooms, 41 THC vape pens, 20 marijuana plants, and about 2 pounds of THX wax at the church, reported WBTV-TV.