Amazingly enough, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed to broker a debt-ceiling deal and say respectful things about each other over the long weekend. Heavy criticism of the deal from both left and right kept us moored in reality, though, and as of this writing, the bill has yet to hit the House floor.
In the coming days we’ll see surveys emerge showing what Americans think of the compromise bill. Like polls from the past couple of weeks, the forthcoming ones are likely to show that Americans have mixed views on the agreement. The issue is simply not one Americans spend much time thinking about or forming opinions on, and it’s hard to expect them to get more informed when so much media coverage of the debt ceiling focuses on elected officials treating it as a Mortal Kombat battle. CONTINUED
Natalie Jackson, National Journal
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