Summary: US politicians have been casting admiring glances across the Atlantic, and have decided to imitate the politics of the interminably tedious EU-UK divorce process. In the US, it is the fiscal negotiations that are interminably tedious. Just as with the EU-UK, absolutely final deadlines have been broken. Just as with the EU-UK, it is in everyone's economic interests for a deal to be done. But just as with the EU-UK, politics keeps getting in the way.
