Link: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/349979-mccain-on-trumps-debt-deal-this-was-not-an-exercise-in-bipartisanship
Summary: A reporter named Rebecca Savransky writes that Senator John McCain criticized the deal President Trump proposed to the Democrats to fund the government and raise debts. McCain states that "that's not the way we need to do business," and that the agreement is "basically devastating to national defense." He also said that, as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, his top priority is to make sure "the men and women who are serving in our military have everything they need," and argues that "under this agreement, they not only don't have everything they need, their lives are in greater danger."
Analysis: This report demonstrates how a poorly contemplated action or decision by a high authority figure such as the president can cause an arise of negative responses from other figures of the similar status. President Trump decided to issue this idea of raising the debt ceiling with Republicans, who had been seeking to raise the debt limit past the 2018 elections (or at least for the next six months) with a deal containing more than fifteen billion dollars in the disaster recovery aid for communities in Texas and Louisiana affected by Hurricane Harvey - a conclusion not only time-consuming but also financially inefficient. Because of the high cost, there might be a slight economic downfall and, as McCain stated, devastation of the national defense leading to a higher death risk of those serving the military. Other authority figures have not criticized this political decision like McCain, so this can relate to how in class, we analyzed a passage written by Bartolomé de Las Casas as he defends the Indians in 1552. Although others did not agree with his opinion, he still spoke out on it and was not afraid of the consequence. Similar to Las Casas's situation, McCain expressed his opinion of President Trump's decision when nobody else did.
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