House prepares to take up measure temporarily raising debt limit
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Washington — The House on Tuesday is set to take up a short-term extension of the debt ceiling, which would temporarily avert a fiscal crisis but sets up a second showdown over the federal government's borrowing limit in the coming months.
The measure raises the debt limit by $480 billion, the amount the Biden administration says is necessary to pay the nation's debts until early December. If passed by the lower chamber, it will then head to President Biden's desk for his signature. While the House is currently on recess, lawmakers are being called back to Washington to vote for the short-term fix.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues in a letter Monday she hopes the debt limit increase will be approved with their unanimous support.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is facing backlash for allegedly sharing remarks that audience members found sexist, homophobic and generally offensive at a Q&A event over the weekend tied to a Massachusetts theater's screening of "Jaws." Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 blockbuster that was filmed in Massachusetts and screened Saturday night at The Cabot, a performing arts center in the coastal community of Beverly.
Another American who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands for possessing ammunition was sentenced to time served and a $9,000 fine on Tuesday, local media reported. Tyler Wenrich was facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison for ammunition charges in the British territory.