$2 Trillion In Cuts: Key Vote Looms After Debt Deal -- MSNBC
Senate expected to consider measure Monday; agreement would mean 'the lowest level of domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president,' Obama says
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress reached agreement with President Barack Obama to raise the limit on U.S. borrowing and forestall an unprecedented American default, marking the start in the final chapter of one of the nastiest and most divisive episodes in recent American political history.
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