If it's Friday, President Biden gets a bipartisan win in Washington as Congress passes the debt ceiling deal,

while his two most likely 24 opponents are trading partisan jabs on the campaign trail.

Plus brand blowback and pride protest, as some corporations find themselves in the midst of the culture war,

facing boycotts and threats of violence over their support of the LGBTQ community.

And a new wave of tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over ethnicity and governance and the future of democracy.

The U.S. and the EU step up pressure on leaders to ease clashes as new NATO forces move in.

I'll talk to Kosovo's prime minister about efforts to de-escalate.

Happy Friday and welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington, where fiscal calamity has been averted for now.

And President Biden is gearing up to take a bit of a victory lap himself.

Biden is set to make his first Oval Office address of his presidency in a sort of prime time tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern. As he signs a deal, he cut with Speaker

McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling. The Senate passed the debt ceiling bill last night by a

bipartisan vote of 63-36. Percentage-wise, there were actually more Republicans against the

deal in the Senate than in the House.

Who had that on their bingo card?

But this deal to avert default is a bipartisan victory for the president,

despite the White House's messaging struggles short-term,

and the president's initial insistence that he would not negotiate with Republicans at all.

There were stumbles, but Biden got back up.

You know where I went.

And it's a reminder that Biden's message has been and continues to be in a form of unity.

Here's what he said in his inaugural address.

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