President Biden is on a roll. Will anybody notice?
The resolution of the debt-ceiling standoff is a win for Biden, and for everybody. At the outset, Biden said he wouldn’t agree to any compromises in order to raise the federal borrowing limit, and at the end he did agree to some compromises. But only a handful of political geeks on cable news care.
Almost no one will notice the modest spending cuts Biden agreed to, and Congress suspended the debt ceiling all the way into 2025, after the next presidential election. Biden said all along he was confident Republicans and Democrats would reach a deal, and he was right. Markets barely wavered through the whole pointless drama.
“He's prone to verbal gaffes, he looks frail, and most Democrats would prefer another nominee,” Greg Valliere, chief strategist for AGF Investments, wrote in his morning newsletter on May 31. “But President Biden emerges from the budget brawl in surprisingly good shape.”