Most Americans support debt ceiling deal - as Speaker Kevin McCarthy get 10% ... trends now
Most voters were happy with the debt ceiling bill and wanted to see it pass Congress – even though more conservative lawmakers railed against Speaker Kevin McCarthy for striking the deal with President Joe Biden.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that McCarthy's approval rating has jumped by 10 percent since the beginning of the year – and after he reached the deal with the president to raise the debt ceiling.
The results are indicative of Americans' desire to see more bipartisanship in Washington, D.C., while members of McCarthy's own party lamented the bill and slammed the Speaker for agreeing to it.
The California lawmaker's prominence in striking the deal is likely contributing to his polling jump from 40 percent approval in January to 50 percent approval in the survey conducted May 30 through June 1.
Thirty-nine percent of the 1,012 likely voters polled view McCarthy unfavorably and 11 percent aren't sure how they feel about the Republican House Speaker.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is now more popular among voters that he struck a deal to raise the debt ceiling with Joe Biden and got it passed in the House
In January, McCarthy had 40% approval – and it jumped to 50 percent after the deal was struck
Multiple conservative members of the House and Republican members of the Senate were not happy with McCarthy striking the deal with Biden and claimed that the provisions don't go far enough.
Additionally, 69 percent of Democrats and 48 percent of Republicans voters said that they are in favor of Congress passing the compromise bill.
President Biden on Saturday signed a bill that lifts the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever federal default.
The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the legislation last week after Biden and McCarthy reached an agreement following months of tense negotiations.
The Treasury Department had warned it would be unable to pay all its bills on Monday if Congress failed to act by then, which would have triggered an unprecedented default.
The White House released a 10-second video clip of Biden signing the bill in the Oval Office, but opted to avoid the type of public ceremony that often accompanies the signing of hard-fought measures.
Most Americans wanted to see Congress pass the deal – even though conservatives slammed McCarthy for reaching the compromise with Biden
The White House released a 10-second video clip of Biden signing the bill in the Oval Office, but opted to avoid the type of public ceremony that often accompanies major measures
Republicans had refused to raise the country's borrowing limit unless Democrats agreed to cut spending, leading to a standoff that was not resolved until weeks of intense negotiations between the White House and McCarthy.
The final agreement, passed by the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday, suspends the debt limit until 2025 - after the next presidential election - and restricts government spending.
It gives lawmakers budget targets for the next two years in hopes of assuring fiscal stability as the political season heats up.
Raising the nation's debt limit, now at $31.4 trillion, will ensure that the government can borrow to pay debts already incurred.
'Passing this budget agreement was critical. The stakes could not have been higher,' Biden said in a speech from the Oval Office on Friday evening. 'Nothing would have been more catastrophic,' he said, than defaulting on the country's debt.
'No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed,' Biden said, highlighting the 'compromise and consensus' in the deal. 'We averted an economic crisis and an economic collapse.'
'Our economy would have been thrown in recession,' Biden intoned in a
