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Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation’s first Black woman to win election as a governor and as the state’s first female governor.
As the U.S. Congress scrambled to come up with a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown Friday, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump insisted that a debt ceiling increase be included in any such deal, then went a step further by seeking to suspend or eliminate the debt limit before he takes office. Here’s why.
The bill’s passage comes after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk scuttled an earlier bipartisan deal.