Author name: Jean Lee

“We’re in the end game now.”  –Dr. Strange, “Avengers: Endgame” We wrote a few weeks ago how the discussions around the debt ceiling had moved, to borrow a metaphor from the game of Chess, into the “middle game”, an interim but necessary phase of the negotiations. On Monday night, the one-on-one meeting between President Biden […]

Following Treasury Secretary Yellen’s recent letter pegging a potential “X Date” for Treasury hitting the debt ceiling, there has been renewed vigor in public and private discussions surrounding the matter.  The White House meeting tomorrow with the president and the four congressional leaders is the next step in the ongoing drama. We see the Yellen

“Beware the Ides of March.”–William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”,  Act I, Scene ii. As we near the middle of March and we approach Shakespeare’s foreboding date, enough time has passed in 2023 that we can start to take stock of the 118th Congress and our current politics

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao-tzu The recent meeting between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy marked the first real guidepost for the debt ceiling debate. While we are only at the beginning of a protracted, surely torturous, debate that will consume Washington for the coming months until

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future.” – Niels Bohr The 118th Congress is set to convene, under split control for the first time in eight years. The Georgia Senate seat runoff combined with ongoing uncertainty around the election of the next Speaker of the House means the legislative year will