On Saturday President Biden signed the legislation that was negotiated between the President and Speaker McCarthy.  The debt/budget deal was passed in time to avoid the crisis of a US Government default which Secretary Yellen said would occur on June 5.

The politics of getting the bipartisan bill passed showed how Washington can work as the legislation passed both Chambers with large bipartisan majorities.

In the House the final total was 314 YES and 117 NO, and in the Senate the margin was 63 YES to 36 NO.  Viewing the vote from a political and policy point of view it made the point that the political spectrum can often be a circle rather than a straight line where the far left and right meet.

In both the House and the Senate the NO votes came from the most extreme on both sides of the political spectrum.  In the House half of the NO Republican votes came from Members of the Freedom Caucus and on the Democratic side 40 of the 46 NO votes came from Members of the Progressive Caucus.  Most of the Republicans that voted NO came from districts that went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2020; these are solid R seats.  From my personal experience working on House campaigns I know that there are Republican Representatives who don’t worry about the genera...

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