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g congressional leaders to strike a spending deal and increase the debt limit in the next two or three weeks, jolted by a recent report that found the Treasury Department was running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted," Damian Paletta and Erica Werner report. "But the talks have bogged down amid acri

side the Democratic caucus. "They're four people and that's how many votes they got," she said. The Squad — consisting of Omar, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) — replied by calling Pelosi a bully. "The four are struggling with the speaker's moves to

after she won her upset last June in a Democratic congressional primary. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) -- Our Sunday magazine has a long profile of Ocasio- Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti. (Read it here first.) -- New Yorker editor David Remnick interviewed AOC after she returned from her trip to

security team and Dragos, a security firm that specializes in industrial control security." The Washington Post (10/23, Nakashima, 14.2M) reports, "The Treasury Department's designation of an institute of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation marks the first time the United States has sanctioned hackers fo

another term as speaker if Democrats hold the House, as is expected. The Washington Times (10/25, Richardson, 492K) reports Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D-NY) said she would back Pelosi if Pelosi "is the most progressive contender." Politico (10/25, Hooper, 4.29M) also reports. High Winds Increase

ng congressional leaders to strike a spending deal and increase the debt limit in the next two or three weeks, jolted by a recent report that found the Treasury Department was running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted," Damian Paletta and Erica Werner report. "But the talks have bogged down amid acrim

w, half a year later, virtually all communication between the two women has ceased. "The two have not spoken one-on-one since February when Ocasio- Cortez declined Pelosi's personal request that she join her select committee on climate change. Just days after, during a private Progressive Caucus meeti

d the family of Fahim Khan, the warlord then serving as the country's first vice president. 'On a scale of one to 10, it was a 20 here,' an unnamed U.S. Treasury Department official posted to Kabul as an Afghan government adviser told interviewers. 'It had elements that you could put into a spy novel, and the connectio

sagree within the party, as evidenced by a high-profile back-and-forth skirmish between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D-N.Y.). The two Democratic heavyweights have clashed since the speaker made dismissive remarks about the influence of the freshman lawmaker in an