With the debt ceiling deal in hand, McCarthy and Biden turn to the task of selling it

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However, the deal, which would have raised the debt ceiling for two years while cutting and limiting some federal programs during the same period, was facing sharp criticism from wings of both political parties.

“Terrible politics, absolutely terrible politics,” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat of Washington, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to job requirements for food stamps and other utilities. “I told the president directly when he called me last week Wednesday that this means telling the poor and needy people that we don’t trust them.”

Ms. Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she wanted to read the bill before deciding whether to support it.

Some on the right had already ruled out doing so before seeing the details.

“No one who claims to be a conservative could justify a YES vote,” Rep. Bob Good, a Virginia Republican and a member of the House Freedom Caucus, wrote on Twitter. Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican from North Carolina, posted his reaction to news of the deal: a vomit emoji.

Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s influential former budget manager who now heads the Center for Renewing America, encouraged right-wing Republicans to use their seats on the House Rules Committee, which Mr. McCarthy gave them as he struggled to get their votes to become speaker – to stall the deal. “The Conservatives should fight it with all their might,” he said.

Even some Senate Republicans, who by that house’s rules have more tools to slow down consideration of the legislation, were up in arms.

“No real cuts to be seen here,” Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, said on Twitter. “The Conservatives have been sold out yet again!”