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Debt limit progress as Biden, McCarthy name top negotiators to avert national default
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have tapped top emissaries to negotiate a deal to avert an unprecedented national default. Biden also cut his upcoming overseas trip short in hopes of closing out a deal.