President Donald Trump and bipartisan congressional leaders clinched a sweeping two-year budget agreement that would produce hundreds of billions in new spending and take the threat of a fiscal crisis off of Washington's plate for more than two years.
The deal, which came together in a burst of urgency during a period of two weeks amid a steady stream of phone calls Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, would eliminate -- for good -- the budget caps put into place in 2011 and suspend the debt ceiling until July 31, 2021.
Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, and Trump have reached an agreement to fund the federal government until July 2021, well past the Nov 2020 elections. Was that a wise, sober move from the democrats to not disrupt the government potentially in the middle of the 2020 presidential cycle or was it giving away a bargaining position with seemingly nothing back from the White House on immigration, trade deals, etc?
In 2018 the government shut down for 35 days in Dec/Jan (2019) over basically the same issue, not really sure how that impacted voters.
The deal, which came together in a burst of urgency during a period of two weeks amid a steady stream of phone calls Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, would eliminate -- for good -- the budget caps put into place in 2011 and suspend the debt ceiling until July 31, 2021.
Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, and Trump have reached an agreement to fund the federal government until July 2021, well past the Nov 2020 elections. Was that a wise, sober move from the democrats to not disrupt the government potentially in the middle of the 2020 presidential cycle or was it giving away a bargaining position with seemingly nothing back from the White House on immigration, trade deals, etc?
In 2018 the government shut down for 35 days in Dec/Jan (2019) over basically the same issue, not really sure how that impacted voters.
