WASHINGTON - The day after announcing a bipartisan compromise to raise the debt ceiling, White House aides and House Republican leaders on Sunday turned to selling the agreement, with just days to pass the measure through both chambers of a factionalized and deeply divided Congress.
In conference calls with lawmakers throughout the day, surrogates for both President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) argued that the deal represented major victories for their respective parties that needed to be swiftly signed into law. Biden and McCarthy also publicly defended the agreement, while acknowledging that both sides made sacrifices to get a deal done.