A team of White House negotiators met with aides of Speaker McCarthy at the Capitol on Tuesday night in an effort to hammer out a deal to raise the debt ceiling, two sources familiar with the discussion say.
that House Republicans passed last month would expand work requirements for some federal aid programs, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, a program that provides grocery aid.
“The policies House Republicans are proposing would take away Americans’ health care and increase poverty," White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said in a statement to NBC News. "Republicans couldn’t pass them into law when they had unified control of government — and the President is fighting to ensure they will not be in a bipartisan budget agreement,”
For the petition to succeed, 218 representatives would need to sign on, meaning at least five Republicans would have to join all Democrats in supporting the measure.
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