Washington Today (3-28-23): Speaker McCarthy to POTUS on debt limit talks, 'You are on the clock'

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sends President Joe Biden a letter accusing him of "putting an already fragile economy in jeopardy by insisting upon your extreme position of refusing to negotiate any meaningful changes to out-of-control government spending alongside an increase of the debt limit"

Senate Banking Committee holds its first hearing on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with the person in charge of the investigation, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr, explaining what they think caused the bank failure and if that includes lack of sufficient government regulation.

House begins debate on a bill designed to increase U.S. energy production and independence, a bill written by the Republican majority and already facing a veto threat from the President.

President Biden again calling on Congress to pass an assault weapons' ban after Monday's mass shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate committee about immigration, border security and drug trafficking, and is asked by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to apologize to parents who have lost children to fentanyl overdoses.

Vice President Kamala Harris in Ghana, visiting a site infamous as a slave-trading post and the home of a door known as the 'door of no return'.

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