Speaker Kevin McCarthy's strategic victory: A behind-the-scenes look at debt ceiling deal WashTimesOpEd
People will argue over how much the House Republicans got and how much President Biden got in the final details of the legislation.
As I describe in my new book, “March to the Majority,” when we won in 1994, we had the momentum of the Contract with America. We had created a Republican tsunami that gained 54 seats in the House, led to Republican control of the Senate, and picked up Republican governorships and state legislatures across the country. Our 230-seat majority — and the emotional and psychological momentum of the first House GOP majority in 40 years — gave us legitimacy to force reforms.
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