Trump Cuts Deal With 'Nancy & Chuck' On Debt Ceiling, Budget And More
Earlier today, Donald Trump spoke to reporters on Air Force One about the deal he just reached with House and Senate Democratic leadership to raise the debt ceiling, keep government open for 3 more months, and get critical aid to Harvey victims.
Make no mistake, this was Democrats getting everything they wanted without giving up anything, and Trump was very happy to give "Nancy and Chuck" the credit.
This followed Paul Ryan's weird and out-of-tune rant earlier this morning about how terrible and political it would be to combine Harvey aid with a debt ceiling increase.
"We had a very good meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We agreed to a three-month extension on the debt ceiling," Trump explained. "They think it's very important, we'll always agree on debt ceiling automatically because of the importance of it."
As an aside, one wonders whether the 240-point drop in the stock market on fears of a debt default or government shutdown had anything to do with why he will automatically agree with Democrats on that issue. We also won't point out his tweets complaining about debt ceiling increases in the past, because that would be impolitic, wouldn't it?