Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to a temporary debt ceiling increase. President Biden's

approval rating plummets to shocking lows and ESPN suspends Sage Steel for saying the unsayable.

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Proop code Shapiro to get started, 30-, risk-free guarantee. You got nothing to lose. PureTalk.com promo code Shapiro. All righty. So, late last night, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, he essentially, quote-unquote, caved to the Democrats. What he did is he agreed to a short-term debt ceiling increase. The way this is being characterized by the Democrats is a win for the Democrats, because instead of them having to cram everything in in the next

couple of weeks and then ram through a debt ceiling increase via the use of reconciliation,

now they will probably have more time to negotiate out this build-back better regime,

this terrifyingly large package that they are putting together. So a lot of people on the right this morning are very angry with Mitch McConnell. I think in part justifiably so, but I think that there is a logic to what McConnell is doing. And I think it has to do mainly with Joe Manchin. It certainly does not have to do with Biden. So one of the theories that is being trotted out there is that Mitch McConnell caved because Joe Biden's

agenda is actually popular and he didn't want to be seen holding it up. That of course is absolute

nonsense. That's very silly. Joe Biden is really, really unpopular. The poll numbers for Joe Biden are

just awful. They are garbage. Quinipiac, which is a polling service that tends to favor Democrats.

Currently has Joe Biden's approval rating at 38%.

Remember that time we were told that Donald Trump was historically unpopular? Well, here you have

Joe Biden, who is basically at the same level as Trump was when Trump was at his lowest levels

of approval rating. Okay, so these are really bad numbers for Biden. And unlike Donald Trump,

who had a pretty solid ceiling and a pretty solid floor, Biden didn't really have a ceiling, but he also has no floor.

What that means is that when he starts to lose support, there is no low to which he cannot crater.

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