President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered a deal to keep the United States from going bankrupt for the first time in its history. However, Congress has yet to pass it.
Most Americans surely had better things to do on Saturday night than deal with America’s debt dispute. It’s also a long weekend, Monday is Memorial Day in memory of US soldiers who died in the line of duty. Yet, in that moment of leisure and celebration, the conversation took place that could have saved the United States and the rest of the world from an uncomfortable economic crisis.
