#Congress: The debt deal and its discontents. Richard A. Epstein Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
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#Congress: The debt deal and its discontents. Richard A. Epstein Hoover Institution
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0602/Debt-deal-reinforces-Biden-as-consensus-builder
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| 0:19.2 | This is CBSI in the world with Professor Richard Epstein and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:24.4 | He teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. |
| 0:27.3 | The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal makes it very clear that there's a debt deal. |
| 0:31.7 | However, the headline is ironic. |
| 0:35.5 | A Republican reality check on McCarthy, that would be the speaker, on McCarthy's debt-sealing deal. |
| 0:41.8 | The speaker isn't the obstacle to more GOP victories. |
| 0:44.8 | Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer are. |
| 0:46.7 | Professor, your thoughts about this deal, |
| 0:50.4 | at which we'll be revisited in two years for the new term of the new president, |
| 0:55.5 | or the re-elected president. |
| 0:57.6 | My measure, having read about it for weeks now, is that it does not confront the problem, |
| 1:04.1 | which is entitlements. |
| 1:05.6 | Is that acceptable to avoid the problem itself and call it a deal? |
| 1:11.3 | Well, look, I'm not happy about the deal in terms of its substance and terms, |
| 1:15.6 | but I think what one has to do is to understand the position that you have. |
| 1:20.0 | You're negotiating under a very strong, very strong default threat. |
| 1:24.6 | It may not have been June 1st. |
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