I think there's two or three things that we could take away from this. We had a reasonably good deal. And by the way, you're never going to get a debt ceiling increased or a CR passed without Democrats' support because we have about 30 Republicans that will not support that in a tight majority.
Don Bacon discusses the necessity of bipartisan support for passing legislation related to the debt ceiling and continuing resolutions.
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I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.
The founders made it very hard to … pass things unless there’s consensus. Madison would be proud of the work he did.
I think he was setting maybe false expectations in the previous months... This is going to be a longer term fight.
I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.
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