WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders failed Friday to pass a partisan, short-term spending bill with fewer than two days left to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown. The final vote was 198 to 232, with more than 20 Republicans voting to oppose their own party’s bill, embarrassing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. McCarthy … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced calls for to carry off an Oct. 1 US authorities shutdown for a month, together with an 8% non permanent spending lower for home companies and a resumption of border wall building. Most Learn from Bloomberg McCarthy scheduled a name with all GOP lawmakers for 8 p.m. Sunday … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday unveiled a plan to spend 1 trillion reais (almost $200 billion) on infrastructure, power and transportation over the following 4 years, half of a bigger effort to spice up financial progress and employment in Latin America’s largest nation. The Development Acceleration Program, … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — Greeks had been voting Sunday within the first election since their nation’s financial system ceased to be topic to strict supervision and management by worldwide lenders who had supplied bailout funds throughout its practically decade-long monetary disaster. The vote pitches conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 55, a Harvard-educated former banking govt, in … Read more