If the debt ceiling deal between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy wins Congressional approval, it would inform us rather a lot about what this Republican Get together cares about and the way it actually works. And it’ll have proved one thing essential about what traces Democrats can maintain and which they will’t.
The deal Biden and McCarthy struck is a modest package deal of spending nips and safety-net tucks. A few of the coverage is silly (like chopping funding for I.R.S. enforcement) and a few of it’s merciless…