I don’t think it puts them on the defensive at all. They’d be getting unlimited spending capacity and a big divisions between the WH and GOP, all from a minority position in Congress. That’s wins on multiple fronts for them.
All they do is spin it as Schumer/Pelosi outsmarting the President to give them what they want, and the lefties will eat it up. They’ll be plenty of other areas where they can go all-out on obstructing the President, and the lefties will eat that up, too.
Eliminating the debt ceiling means that the Freedom Caucus really has no purpose to its existence any longer.
I don’t know any longer if that’s what we want.