The Economist: “These debt-ceiling fights are American governance at its most silly. As achievements in hypocrisy and self-defeat, they can’t be beat. When Republicans had unified management of presidency beneath Donald Trump, they freely raised the ceiling and, with it, the debt, whereas Democrats, for all their piety now, have additionally used the debt ceiling for leverage.”
“As for self-defeat: the final time a Republican Home pursued such brinkmanship the president was, in fact, a Democrat (Barack Obama), and the end result was a leap in charges which will have added half a billion {dollars} to the debt.”
