In an interview with “The New Washington,” a podcast by the New York Times, McConnell said the deal was “not quite as good as my counterpart thought it was.”

“Since I was in charge of drafting the debt ceiling provision that we inserted into the flood bill, we likely — almost certainly — are not going to have another debt ceiling discussion until well into 2018,” said McConnell, according to the Times report on the interview.

McConnell explained that he pushed for retaining the Treasury Department’s ability to use “extraordinary measures” to avoid a more immediate need to raise the debt ceiling.