A January 2016 quote from then-Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz predicting that Donald Trump would eventually “cut a deal” with the Democrats is going viral after the president sided with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer against Republicans on the debt ceiling.
On Wednesday, Trump backed the Democratic House Minority Leader and Senate Minority Leader on raising the debt ceiling. While Republicans Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (WI) wanted either a clean Hurricane Harvey relief bill or else one connected to an eighteen-month debt ceiling increase with various Republican priorities wrapped in, Trump sided with Pelosi and Schumer on Hurricane Harvey relief funding that is tied to a three-month debt ceiling increase — “a total Democratic victory that also gives Democrats the upper hand in budget negotiations in December,” as Daily Wire‘s Ben Shapiro puts it.
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