You may have seen Dan’s piece on this last Thursday, looking at how it’s part of a bigger-picture strategy by the president to basically disrupt everything about how Washington does business. That’s a perspective you’ll want to consider as you observe events like this.
But let’s look for a second just at what happened on Wednesday, when President Trump pushed aside Republican congressional leaders and made a deal with – gasp! – Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling for only three months. Republican leaders wanted to raise it enough to last all the way past the 2018 elections, but President Trump wanted to get the issue off the table for the moment so it wouldn’t hamper efforts to pass hurricane relief for Houston and without a doubt, now Florida too.
