The agreement will need to get 218 votes in order to pass the House of Representatives and head to the Senate.
Members of Congress will be busy reading the details of the debt ceiling bill finally hammered out by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend.
President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy now have to sell the deal they reached on raising the nation's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to the various flanks and their respective caucuses. So what's next?Expanding work requirements for the SNAP food assistance program is going to be a tough pill for progressives to swallow. They're concerned about it impacting lunch programs for underprivileged kids. Meanwhile, Republicans, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, are concerned about cutting government military spending. So, there's criticism on both sides of the aisle.
"It takes the threat of catastrophic default off the table, it protects our hard-earned and historic economic recovery, and the agreement also represents a compromise, which means no one got everything they want, but that's the responsibility of governing," President Biden said.
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