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Joseph Clark

Joseph Clark

jclark@washingtontimes.com

Joseph Clark covered Congress and national security for The Washington Times.

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Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., center, and members of the House Freedom Caucus speak against Democratic policies and President Joe Biden's agenda with a focus on the debt limit, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House Freedom Caucus lays out demands for debt-ceiling raise

A coalition of Freedom Caucus lawmakers laid out a series of demands for securing their vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling, setting the bar in the Republican Party ahead of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's return to negotiations with the White House.

March 10, 2023
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker arranges raw filaments at the production base of Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province on Feb. 22, 2023. China's factory activity accelerated in February as the economy revived following the end of anti-virus controls that kept millions of people at home and disrupted travel and trade, two surveys showed Wednesday, March 1. (Wu Gang/Xinhua via AP)

China risks losing top trade status with U.S.

China's antagonistic foreign policy and manipulative economic practices have Washington lawmakers rethinking the decades-old preferential trade treatment that the U.S. bestows on the communist regime.

March 5, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on reducing gun violence, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, July 12, 2021, in Washington. The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws dealing with crime and voting reflects a larger political dynamic playing out across the country. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden loses footing with Republicans now in power

President Biden's reversal on a House GOP-led measure exposed a White House still struggling to figure out how to operate in a Washington where Republicans have partial control over the agenda.

March 5, 2023