A Biden-McCarthy Handshake is Just the Beginning for a Debt Deal
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergThis is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. We're focusing this week on the debt-ceiling drama. Today, Anna Edgerton and Steven T. Dennis look at how it could end. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.
The hardest part of the debt-ceiling talks, of course, will be finding an agreement that meets Republican demands for concessions, gets Democratic votes and lets the Treasury borrow more money.