After insisting for weeks that Senate Republicans would play no role in raising the debt limit, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reversed course and offered a deal, which got hammered out Thursday, to add $480 billion to the nation’s borrowing cap. In a completely different context, Microsoft announced Thursday it would affirmatively act to make its products much easier for customers to repair.
These seem like unrelated stories, but they have a common denominator: When politicians and public servants decide to govern, their political and policy opponents get the message and recalibrate.
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