Multiple GOP presidential hopefuls led the charge against the debt deal, saying it didn’t cut social programs enough.
forum in May, he basically threw his weight behind the idea of a default, refusing multiple opportunities to declare that he would always honor U.S. debt obligations. Trump was now, all of a sudden, more pragmatic., presumably hedging his bets.
For a man as mercurial as Trump is, he’s actually playing it safe on the debt. He can plausibly claim both to be against the bill and also to have given his tacit consent to enough Republicans to vote for the bill to ensure that the U.S. didn’t default on its debt. Meanwhile, his challengers spiral ever-further to the right. In out-Trumping Trump with the base, these challengers may have won a few laurels from their hardline primary voters, but it’s hard to see how any of them will have strengthened their appeal to general election voters by embracing debt default as a positive solution to the nation’s fiscal woes.is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt.
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