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McCarthy Seeks New Budget Deal with Biden, Drawing Rebuke from Ocasio-Cortez Over Potential Shutdown

  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to renegotiate budget deal with Biden to appease GOP hardliners and avert shutdown.

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said McCarthy already got his meeting with Biden, deal is done, and he can "go pound sand."

  • Ocasio-Cortez mocked McCarthy's 15 ballot Speaker election and potential government shutdown 9 months later.

  • Ocasio-Cortez said McCarthy can't count votes correctly and is now shutting down government.

  • Hardline GOP demanding radical spending cuts, forcing restart of student loan payments in earlier deal.

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