Weeks to avoid default, and everything’s riding on four people
Kyrsten Sinema, who’s convened her share of bipartisan dealmaking groups, has stayed pretty quiet on the debt limit standoff. Until now.
“You wanna get a deal done? Having [Young] and Garret Graves in a room is probably the best way to do it,” he said. Ricchetti and Terrell are renowned for having the full confidence of the president, allowing them to actually clinch a deal on Biden’s behalf. Then there’s Young, a respected budget guru who’s won trust from both sides in her handling of epic Hill spending battles like the border wall. And Graves is McCarthy’s shadow whip, a behind-the-scenes policy wonk who’s described by the speaker’s staff as aThey’ve leapt quickly into talks, meeting Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning.
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