So my hot take is I'd bet money that republicans are still going to try to use the us debt ceiling black mail

And use it to try to get cuts to popular programs. The republicans have never cared that their ideas aren't politically popular , when it proves they were not not loved by the american public they tried to make it harder to vote!

brinkmanship politics is going to return. That's my prediction. They're going to act like they have a mandate despite clearly having no mandate.