The Senate easily passed a bill to suspend the debt ceiling, which now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.
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Photos: Scenes from the debt ceiling negotiations
FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listen as President Joe Biden speaks before a meeting to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
President Joe Biden speaks about the debt limit talks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president, center, and Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, right, top negotiators for President Joe Biden on the debt limit crisis, enter the Capitol for talks, Monday, May 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
FILE - From left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., sit together during a ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. If a debt limit deal can be reached between McCarthy and President Joe Biden, McCarthy has promised his conference that he will give lawmakers 72 hours to read the bill before they vote on it and send it to the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
President Joe Biden listens as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during their meeting to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Joe Biden meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., talks to reporters as Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listens after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., walks from the West Wing to talk to reporters after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
From left, Brittan Specht, Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff's senior policy advisor, Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, Dan Meyer, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff, Louisa Terrell, legislative affairs director, Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listen as President Joe Biden meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., a key Republican in the debt limit negotiations and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, joins Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as they meet with reporters following their discussions at the White House with President Joe Biden on the impasse over the government's debt ceiling, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday evening, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks to reporters, Tuesday, May 23, 2023, as returns to his office from the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, as debt limit negotiations continue. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., expresses his frustration with Democrats and President Biden over the debt limit negotiations as he speaks to reporters in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks about the threat of default during a news conference, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
The national debt clock is seen in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, May 25, 2023. Both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are speaking hopefully of the likelihood of an agreement to raise the government's debt limit and avert an economically chaotic federal default. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
After long days and nights haggling over the debt limit, Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., the top Republican negotiator for the Republicans, pauses as Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, May 28, 2023. The mediators came to an "agreement in principle" with the White House that would avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default, but still has to pass both houses of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn upon his return to the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 28, 2023, after he and first lady Jill Biden were in Delaware to watch granddaughter Natalie Biden graduate from high school. Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy came to an “agreement in principle” on the debt limit Saturday that would avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default, but still has to pass both houses of Congress. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Washington. Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement Sunday on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling while trying to ensure enough Republican and Democratic votes to pass the measure in the coming week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters as he leaves Capitol Hill, Monday, May 29, 2023, in Washington. After weeks of negotiations, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have struck an agreement to avert a potentially devastating government default. The stakes are high for both men — and now each will have to persuade lawmakers in their parties to vote for it. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, speaks as the House Rules Committee meets to prepare the debt limit bill, The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, for a vote on the floor, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., left, wearing a pin simulating the increasing U.S. National Debt, joined at right by Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., both members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, whispers to Norman as the House Rules Committee meets to prepare the debt limit bill, The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, for a vote on the floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee accompanied by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., along with other House Republican members, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined at left by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., the Democratic Caucus chair, talks to reporters about the closed-door meeting they had with fellow Democrats on the debt limit deal, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The agreement negotiated by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden, will be voted on in the House later tonight. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. as the House moves toward passage of the debt limit bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. along with other Republican members of the House, speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. listens at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,along with other Republican members of the House, speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Voting tally sheets are seen in the press gallery after a hectic series of amendment votes and final passage on the big debt ceiling and budget cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching default deadline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a hectic series of amendment votes and final passage on the big debt ceiling and budget cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden's desk to become law before the fast-approaching default deadline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
