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The Constitution of Democrats: A Fight Without the Looming Threat
I think the structural problem here is that Biden really cares about avoiding default. A bunch of Republicans do not care about avoiding defaults. And then the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, is like, eh, we're going to default an hour later. So who really cares? Get everything you can. It just didn't feel real and get it done at the time. I don't lay it at the feet of even the Biden administration or any specific Senate Democrats. But maybe a big kerfuffle would have led to nothing.