House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergAnna Edgerton
Steven T. Dennis
Alex Wayne
This 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
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.