Reuters -President Donald Trump forged a surprising deal with Democrats in Congress on Wednesday to extend the U.S. debt limit and provide government funding until Dec. 15, embracing his political adversaries and blindsiding fellow Republicans in a rare bipartisan accord.
Trump, living up to his reputation for unpredictability, met at the White House with congressional leaders from both parties and overruled Republicans and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who wanted a longer-term debt-limit extension rather than the three-month Democratic proposal the president embraced.
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I think Trump just demonstrated very presidential like leadership, but of course the media will give him no credit and instead criticize him for not being bipartisan ENOUGH.
I want to know who carrot and sticked 45 into doing anything resembling presidential behavior. Since the election, 45 has been universally incapable of doing anything actually presidential. Until I see 45 doing a better job on disaster response for Harvey, Irma, and the raging fires in the West, than W Bush did with Katrina, any decent behavior on 45's part is simply the doings of someone on staff who saw that a government shut down in the middle of multiple disasters would lose 45 the rest of his waining support, and managed to get that through to 45.
I strongly suspect that 45's disaster response will make W. Bush look like a caring genius, instead of the incompetent that W was.
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