Biden’s approach to negotiations reflects a half-century of bargaining in Washington. When someone has been around as long as he has, resisting the temptation to spike the ball and claim victory can be critical to actually securing the victory.
President Joe Biden prepares to travel to Colorado for the Air Force Academy graduation, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
While Biden knew that would aggravate progressives in his own party, he gambled that he could keep enough of them in line without public chest-beating and figured that it was more important to let McCarthy claim the win to minimize a revolt on the hard right that could put his speakership in danger.
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists globally. Why are we going to negotiate with the economic terrorists here that are the Republican Party?” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., told reporters. The spending restraints will apply only for the next two years instead of the 10 years sought by Republicans and result in less than half of the cuts they wanted. The work requirements ultimately added to social safety-net programs were more modest than originally envisioned and not applied at all to Medicaid, as Republicans insisted.
Biden’s approach was decidedly old-school in a new-school era. No matter how much McCarthy assailed him for waiting 97 days to talk about the dispute, the president believed there was no point in rushing into extended talks, given that no important agreements in Washington are made until a deadline is looming with catastrophic consequences if the two sides do not come together.
Many others in both parties have run to the television cameras in recent days to make comments about the meaning of the agreement and the effects it would have on politics or policy, but Biden positioned himself as the calm man in the capital, the mature leader he hopes voters will prefer during next year’s election.
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