Just a week earlier House Democrats were fuming mad over what they saw as a one-sided negotiation tilting toward Republicans. Then Democrats embraced the final debt compromise and gave even more votes than Republicans, writes Paul Kane in Analysis.
Yet, when the final vote was finally held late Wednesday, Democrats delivered 165 votes — almost 80 percent of the caucus — in favor of the Biden-led compromise. That’s a bigger haul than Republicans, who provided 149 votes, or two-thirds of their caucus.
“This is yet another time that Biden was underestimated and delivered, and it’s in a long line of them,” Rep. Darren Soto said after the final vote. “You can celebrate all you want tonight because you dodged a bullet, but there are plenty of bullets headed your way now,” Rep. Gerald E. Connolly said after voting against the bill.
Early last week, after much venting, the new Democratic leadership team took its own more aggressive approach in the media. And once the deal was announced last weekend, Aguilar’s team ran conference calls and Zoom sessions between administration officials and lawmakers.
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