美国在世界各地的盟友惊异地注视着最近因提高联邦政府债务上限而引发的口水战，他们惊讶于美国国会无法达成任何均衡而具前瞻性的折衷协议。
America’s friends around the world watched with dismay the recent brawl in over raising the federal government’s debt ceiling, and the US Congress’s inability to come to anything like a balanced and forward-looking compromise.