‘Extremist’ Conservatives and ‘Reasonable’ Liberals: How the Media Covered the Debt Ceiling Deal Holdouts

Quote: "The Fiscal Responsibility Act is much closer to McCarthy's original position than it is to Biden's. It doesn't hike taxes. It reduces spending. It contains measures the Left can't stand." https://t.co/6cHhOwJra3

— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 2, 2023

The recent debt ceiling deal saw both conservatives and progressives threaten to sink the bill.

To hear the media tell it, the former were radicals. The latter were just being pragmatic. Me @FreeBeacon https://t.co/FcH6SvmWTW

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) June 2, 2023