Bernie

I agree with Bernie. This debt ceiling agreement is being framed as a kind of victory, but it's not. Two examples ...

1) this whole thing is supposed to be about the debt ceiling ... paying for bills from the past ... not about a future budget. In the past, the debt ceiling has been passed cleanly and in a bi-partisan way. But now the Republicans are using it to extort the country on their wedge issues.

2) As much as they try to say the country wasn't damaged in this deal, it was. The deal made it harder for some older poor people to get food stamps (New SNAP work requirements, explained). And it fast-tracked a gas pipeline that is bad for the environment and appears to be the result of a shady back room deal between Biden and Manchin (What to know about the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the debt ceiling deal).