周三晚上的房子批准了一项提高国家债务上限的法案同时在未来两年削减一些政府支出，随着美国大选日益临近，这是白宫和共和党领导人的一次重大胜利历史性的票据违约。
最后的投票结果是314票对117票。
共和党会议的大多数人以149票支持这项立法，但正是165名民主党人帮助确保了通过，因为71名保守派最终投了反对票，46名民主党人也投了反对票。四名议员，两名共和党人和两名民主党人没有投票。
该提案接下来将提交给参议院，参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默和少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔都表示，他们希望尽快批准该提案，甚至最早在周四或周五。
这项由乔·拜登总统和众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡促成的协议将提高该国31.4万亿美元的借款限额直到2025年1月，同时在未来两年内制定广泛的政府预算，并做出一些政策变化，如增加联邦食品援助的工作要求。
财政部长珍妮特·耶伦估计，政府将在周一(即所谓的违约“X日”)之前耗尽支付所有账单的现金。
但众议院周三通过的财政责任法案包括一项为期两年的政府预算，以换取在2025年1月1日之前提高债务上限。
该法案将在2024财年保持非国防支出不变，并在2025财年增加1%的水平。
投票结束后，麦卡锡对记者说，他吹捧他所谓的共和党的工作让白宫妥协他强调了他的政党在目前分裂的联邦政府下所要求的削减和节约。
“我知道债务上限即将到来。我想创造历史。我想做一些其他国会没有做过的事情，我们将真正扭转局面，在相当长的一段时间里，我们第一次比去年花费更少。“今晚，我们都将创造历史。”
“这是我想要的一切吗?“不，”麦卡锡说，后来又补充道，“我认为我们为美国公众做得非常好。”
在他自己的一份声明中，拜登称赞众议院在通过协议方面迈出了“关键的一步”，并特别感谢麦卡锡“和他的团队真诚地进行了谈判”。
“这项预算协议是两党的妥协。双方都没有得到想要的一切。这是执政的责任，”他说。
总统说，这项协议保护了他的议程的关键部分，以及像医疗保险和社会保障这样的政府项目。
尽管拜登和麦卡锡有庆祝的口吻，但他们的协议也引起了两党的批评——这在众议院是明显的少数。
一些共和党人表示，这位议长在全面削减支出方面做得不够，这与4月份按照党派路线通过的众议院法案类似。
民主党人表示，拜登同意削减一些支出，但没有坚持要求共和党人在没有先决条件的情况下提高债务上限，这是他们所称的经济劫持。
Debt ceiling deal passes the House as US moves closer to preventing historic default
The House on Wednesday nightapproved a bill to raise the nation's debt ceilingwhile cutting some government spending over the next two years, in a major victory for both the White House and Republican leaders as the country tip-toes closerto a historic default on its bills.
The final vote was 314-117.
A majority of the GOP conference backed the legislation, with 149 votes, but it was 165 Democrats who helped ensure passage as 71 conservatives ultimately voted no, as did 46 Democrats. Four lawmakers, two Republicans and two Democrats, didn't vote.
The proposal next heads to the Senate, where both Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they want to move quickly to approve it -- even as soon as Thursday or Friday.
The deal, brokered between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, would raisethe country's $31.4 trillion borrowing limituntil January 2025 while setting a broad government budget over the next two years and making some policy changes, such as increasing work requirements on federal food assistance.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has estimated that the government will run out of cash to pay all of its bills by Monday -- the so-called "X-date" for default.
But the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which passed the House on Wednesday includes a two-year government budget in exchange for lifting the debt ceiling through Jan. 1, 2025.
The bill would keep non-defense spending flat in fiscal 2024 and increase levels by 1% in fiscal 2025.
Speaking with reporters after the vote, McCarthy touted what he called Republicans' workin getting the White House to compromiseand he highlighted the cuts and savings he said his party had exacted in light of the currently divided federal government.
"I knew the debt ceiling was coming. I wanted to make history. I wanted to do something no other Congress has done, that we would literally turn the ship, that for the first time in quite some time we'd spend less than we spent the year before," he said. "Tonight, we all make history."
The House passed the debt limit deal by a vote of 314-117.
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"Is it everything I wanted? No," McCarthy said, later adding, "I think we did pretty dang good for the American public."
In a statement of his own, Biden applauded the House for taking a "critical step forward" in passing the agreement and specifically thanked McCarthy "and his team for negotiating in good faith."
"This budget agreement is a bipartisan compromise. Neither side got everything it wanted. That’s the responsibility of governing," he said.
The president said that the deal protects key parts of his agenda, as well as government programs like Medicare and Social Security.
Despite Biden and McCarthy's celebratory tones, their deal had drawn bipartisan criticism, too -- a notable minority of the House.
Some Republicans said the speaker had not gone far enough in getting sweeping spending cuts, similar to a House bill that passed along party lines in April.
And Democrats said Biden had given in to what they likened to economic hostage-taking in agreeing to some spending cuts without holding to his demand that Republicans raise the debt ceiling without preconditions.
