Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) wrote in a Facebook post an hour before the Senate voted that a deal brokered to re-open the government and avert default was “more of a black eye than a victory” and vowed that the continued across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration still counted as a Republican gain.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=205317