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Extremist House Republicans are furious how President Joe Biden was able to craft a debt ceiling deal without giving up much, but according to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, GOP lawmakers were able to put work requirements into the legislation that will require families using government assistance to put their "able bodied" children to work in order to continue receiving benefits.

"We also did something different," McCarthy, trying to sell GOP voters on the bill, told Fox News Tuesday morning. "In this family we may have a child, able-bodied, not married, no kids, but he's sitting on the couch collecting welfare."

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Tuesday came out against the deal that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) struck with President Joe Biden to raise the debt ceiling.

Writing on Twitter, Mace argued that the deal showed "Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can’t find his pants," despite the fact that McCarthy crowed over the weekend that the deal has nothing positive in it for Democrats.

Over the last decade, Wisconsin has taken a sharp turn to the right, with former President Donald Trump taking the state in 2016 and President Joe Biden just barely scraping together enough votes to win it back in 2020.

However, Politico reports that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has put the Badger State back on a progressive trajectory, best exemplified by liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz's double-digit defeat of right-wing rival Dan Kelly in a state Supreme Court election earlier this year.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Sunday warned that Republican state legislators had made a "shameless power grab" by passing a pair of bills aimed at allowing the state government to take control of elections in the Democratic stronghold, which includes Houston.

Senate Bill 1933 passed on Sunday as the state's legislative session came to a close, with lawmakers sending to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott's desk a bill that could give Secretary of State Jane Nelson—who was nominated by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate—the authority to run elections under circumstances in any county with more than 3.5 million residents.

The bill hammered out by US leaders to prevent the country from a catastrophic default on its debts will face one final and potentially perilous hurdle this week: Passing a divided Congress.

Lawmakers return Tuesday from a holiday weekend with precious few days to review, debate and ultimately greenlight a measure intended to extend US borrowing authority in exchange for White House policy concessions, notably caps on federal spending.

An analysis in Politico using data from the U.S. Labor Department revealed that low-wage workers scored a huge boost between 2020 and 2022. But that could be ending.

According to the report, the pandemic dramatically changed the labor market, government aid, and policies during the crisis. Amid a worker shortage, anyone making $12.50 hourly saw a pay increase by 6 percent, even after inflation.

Early indications suggest President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) have the numbers to pass their debt limit deal through Congress, but several procedural hurdles could torpedo the deal, one of which is the of the speaker’s own making, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the U.S. government would run out of money to pay its bills by June 5 unless Congress votes to extend the debt limit ceiling.

Fox's White House correspondent Peter Doocy is known for causing a multitude of responses from President Joe Biden with questions.

In January 2023, the two clashed after classified documents were found in Biden's garage. Doocy implied that his case was the same as Donald Trump, however, Biden ensured documents were immediately returned to the National Archives or other government agencies. Trump refused to turn his over until a subpoena was enforced by a search warrant.

A Boston federal judge has postponed a hearing regarding a lawsuit filed by a government workers’ union in an attempt to bolster President Joe Biden’s authority to invoke the 14th Amendment to override the debt ceiling, Politico reported.

“In deference to the efforts of the executive and legislative branches to resolve the current impasse over the debt ceiling statute, the court will postpone the hearing on [the union’s] motion for a preliminary injunction scheduled for this Wednesday, May 31, 2023, pending any further order of the court,” U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns wrote.

MAGA Republicans and right-wing media outlets have had a lot to say about inflation, often claiming that President Joe Biden's economic policies are to blame.

But inflation is a problem all around the world; many other developed countries have higher inflation rates than the United States. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has cited corporate price-gouging and the COVID-19 pandemic as key causes of inflation.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vowed during a Monday interview with Fox & Friends to "destroy leftism" if he defeats President Joe Biden in next year's presidential election. DeSantis launched his White House campaign last week and is widely viewed as former President Donald Trump's top competitor for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

"Most of the people that support you probably voted for President Trump twice. And the first comment I hear over and over again is, 'Why doesn't Ron DeSantis wait for President Trump's second term and then run?' And what is your best answer to that? Why is right now the time for Ron DeSantis to run for president?" host Will Cain asked.

This past fall, a police report in Foster County, North Dakota claimed that a 42-year-old man named Shannon Brandt had run over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson after he allegedly accused the teen of being part of a "Republican extremist group."

The case drew outrage among right-wing media personalities, many of whom linked Ellingson's killing to President Joe Biden's speeches slamming "MAGA Republicans" as an inspiration.

Former President Donald Trump paid tribute to America's fallen military servicemembers on Monday by posting an all-caps rant attacking his political foes.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the former president linked the struggles faced in the past by soldiers in assorted American wars with the battles he's engaged with his own domestic enemies.