Don Bacon of Nebraska is as close to a moderate Republican as you can get. However, he's basically endorsed the debt ceiling hostage taking. Bacon does not appear to be an idiot. He understands the difference between the debt ceiling and the budget. To conflate the two is not to suggest he's suddenly an idiot, but that he understands the political calculus. In the GOP, the debt ceiling IS the budget. While Biden has signaled a willingness to negotiate over the budget for 2024, he is not going to negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States. Nor should he.
That Bacon is basically tying the debt ceiling and the budget together isn't an act of stupidity, it's an act of surrender to the lunatics like Gaetz, Gosar and Greene who might not actually know the difference.
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