Biden navigates debt ceiling negotiations with caution.

White House officials sought to downplay the victory of striking a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, fearing that any crowing about the agreement would endanger its passage. Biden world wanted to emerge from the process with the public perception of being the “adults in the room;” mediators in an era of sharp partisanship. With the debt ceiling bill having passed the House on Wednesday, and soon to pass the Senate, the president’s team is aiming to use the negotiations around it to its political advantage, according to more than a half dozen people familiar with the plan but not authorized to discuss internal strategy.