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Well right, the limit was soon to be hit, so the president was asking for more borrowing authority, and negotiated this trade as part of the process.

There definitely was negotiating, and you can see they lost a fair number of Republicans who weren't happy with the trade.

The normal appropriations process is a yearly one, so the debt ceiling looming ended up pushing them into a corner where they gave up on regular order to extend additional spending that neither side was really happy with.

In the current case, Republicans have passed something with Democrats refusing to go along, so this seems to be an example that you're looking for.

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