Schumer, McConnell Turn Down Heat on Debt Limit

“Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell clobbered each other incessantly during October’s debt ceiling standoff. Now, as a new December deadline approaches, they’re taking a slightly more conciliatory approach,” Politico reports.

Said Schumer: “We had a good discussion about several different issues that are all extent here as we move toward the end of the session, and we agreed to keep talking and working together.”