and his team. i got a lot of day care drop-off time with chairman patrick mchemc mchenry. and he and his team, i really do appreciate the way they approached this. look, people say what they need to say outside. it matters what we do in the room. and that s what our focus was. shalonda young, thank you so much. at least three more republicans are jumping into the race this week. what we expect. plus, you see it there. motorcycles and barbecue. we ll talk about that with my panel, next. ike to. move it we re reinventing our network. fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated.
the upper hand in the debt ceiling deal. here with me now, a key negotiator in the debt deal, shalonda young, thank you so much for coming in. it is nice to see you. i wan to read a comment from democratic congressman brad sherman after the vote. he said, now we are allowed to say it. we rolled them. so now that it is over, do you believe that this deal was better for democrats than republicans? did you roll republicans? this is what i think. i think at the end of the day, the long view, the short and the medium view is, default was not an option. so, not who could win, certainly one of our goals is to make sure we got nothing close to what you saw in the house republican bill, that would have been unacceptable for us, unacceptable for congressional democrats so we had to do everything in ow po power to make sure whatever was passed didn t have many of those
talks. but we brought those forward and ended up in a result that would have been ambitious to say the least even two months from now. this is the first high stakes negotiation that you ve been involved in with speaker mccarthy. how did he do? i ve been around with speaker mccarthy when i was on hill. i don t know him, i know him better after this process and it was a very professional working relationship with him and his team. i got a lot of day care dropoff time with chairman patrick mchenry. it is good to have parents with small children who know your pain. and in that room. and he and his team, i do appreciate the way they approached this. look, people say what they need to say outside and it matters what we do in the room and that is what our focus was. shalonda young, omb director, thank you. thank you so much. at least three more republicans are jumping into the race this week. what we expect. plus motorcycles and