House Approves Extension of Debt Ceiling Into December

WASHINGTON—The House on Tuesday voted along party lines to raise the U.S. borrowing limit into December, as Democratic lawmakers wrestled with how to set a new ceiling for U.S. debt later this year over Republican resistance.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) called the House back from a week away from Washington to pass the debt-ceiling increase that cleared the Senate last week. The early return followed a warning from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to House Democratic leaders that if the chamber failed to act this week, the U.S. wouldn’t be able to pay its bills. The White House has said that President Biden will sign the measure into law.