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One hundred voters gathered in a small conference room near Washington, D.C.s Chinatown neighborhood on Monday carrying signs and wearing campaign buttons for their chosen Democratic presidential candidate. Despite being more than 850 miles away from Iowa, these enthusiastic caucusgoers were participating in the first presidential nominating contest of the year.The gathering wa stanley cup s one of 87 satellite caucus locations around the world aimed at expanding access to more Iowa residents. Last presidential election, the Iowa Democratic Party experimented with satellite caucuses, but only offered four locations. The caucusgoers in D.C. included students who still officially reside in Iowa, professionals sent to the area for work conferences and people who recently relocated to the nations capital.To qualify for the caucuses, attendees must be Iowa residents, registered members of the Democratic Party and will be at least 18 years old by Election Day in November.Eleven candidates are currently competing for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination. As in Iowa, a central focus for many voters at the D.C. caucus was choosing the person best positioned to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. In D.C., caucusgoers offered an overwhelming respons stanley cup e: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.In the end, Warrens supporters accum stanley cup ulated 42 people, followed by former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 23 people, former Vice President Joe Biden with 20 people and Sen. Bernie Sanders with 15 people. U Ojzl Hazardous cleanup underway after train derails in northeast D.C.
HIROSHIMA, Japan AP 鈥?President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their聽extreme positions聽on the聽now-stalled talks聽over raising聽America debt limit聽and that there would be no agreement to avert a聽catastrophic default聽only on their terms.Watch Biden remarks in the video player above.Bid adidas samba en and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., will meet in person on Monday as the government races against a looming deadline to raise Americas debt limit before federal funds potentially run dry early next month.READ MORE: Heres why a government default could be worse than a government shutdownThe leaders spoke by phone Sunday as the president returned home on Air Force One after the Group of Seven summit in Japan. McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol that the call was productive and that the on-again, off-again negotiations would resume later in the day.Both sides have said progress was being made but th stanley cup at they remain far apart. Bidens Treasury Department has said it could run out of cash as soon as June 1, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday, I think that thats a hard deadline. McCarthy said after his call with Biden that I think we can solve some of these problems if he understands what were looking at. The speaker af1 added, But Ive been very clear to him from the very beginning. We have to spend less money than we spent last year. The Republican leader said there no agreeme |
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