‘There’s So Much In This That’s Positive’: McCarthy Defends Debt Ceiling Deal Amid GOP Backlash

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) defended his tentative debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden amid backlash from his party.
“There’s so much in this that’s positive,” McCarthy said during a May 28 appearance on Fox News Sunday.
On the evening of May 27, McCarthy announced during a press conference that he and Biden had reached what he called “an agreement in principle that’s worthy of the American people” to raise the debt ceiling. In addition to raising the debt ceiling, the bill would cap non-defense spending at its previous levels, enhance work requirements for government assistance, and reclaim unspent COVID-19 relief funds, among other measures….}