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Clouds float above the U.S. Capitol, while inside the building, House Republicans search for a new Speaker of the House following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, in Washington, U.S., October 5, 2023. In their first gathering since McCarthy's ouster, House Republicans were due to meet on Monday evening. There could be a House floor vote to elect a replacement for McCarthy later in the week. 2 House Republican, and Jim Jordan, a leader of the party's conservative wing, are campaigning to succeed McCarthy, but neither candidate has the election sewn up. Eight Republicans on Oct. 3 joined all House Democrats in a vote to remove McCarthy as speaker, the first time in history that the House removed its leader.

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Biden signaled an openness to Republicans' demand to claw back some unused money for COVID relief, which is less than $80 billion. House of Representatives Speaker McCarthy told reporters that Biden also indicated a willingness to work on speeding up permitting for energy projects, a goal that went unmet in 2022. "Default is not an option," Biden told reporters after Tuesday's meeting. House and Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have said they will not authorize any additional borrowing without an agreement to cut spending. The last time the nation got this close to default was in 2011 - also with a Democratic president and Senate with a Republican-led House.

But he added that "a no-strings attached debt limit increase will not pass" the House. He added that he will seek to roll back federal spending on many programs to fiscal 2022 levels, followed by spending growth of only 1% each year over the next decade. "We are seeing in real time the effects of reckless government spending," McCarthy said in his opening remarks. Before the speech, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said, "There is one responsible solution to the debt limit: addressing it promptly, without brinksmanship or hostage taking - as Republicans did three times in the last administration." So far House Republicans have not produced a proposed budget of their own, a move that Biden contends would be a necessary starting point for negotiations on spending.

I don't think his lawyers will want him to show up because he has to testify under oath," Pelosi said in an interview with MSNBC. Nevertheless, Trump has maintained he did nothing illegal in pressing that case, including on the day of the Capitol riot. Trump and Pelosi have had a long, stormy relationship. Outside the White House following the meeting that Democrats stormed out of, Pelosi told reporters Trump had suffered a "meltdown." Cheney did not say what the panel would do if Trump refuses to cooperate with the subpoena.

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