Republicans did ultimately vote to suspend the federal debt ceiling in 2023 via the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which passed with substantial GOP support in both the House and Senate and suspended the limit until January 1, 2025, thereby averting default. (en.wikipedia.org)

The agreement capped certain categories of future discretionary spending, clawed back unspent COVID funds, and trimmed some IRS funding, but it did not repeal or fundamentally roll back major industrial-policy statutes such as the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. Reporting and analysis indicate that these laws continued to drive large-scale manufacturing and clean‑energy investments—many in Republican-leaning states and districts—after the debt ceiling deal, meaning deficit‑financed industrial policy and re‑shoring efforts remained largely intact. (en.wikipedia.org)

However, the public case Republican leaders made for the Fiscal Responsibility Act focused on avoiding a catastrophic default and achieving spending restraint: they emphasized deficit reduction, cuts or caps on discretionary spending, rescission of unspent COVID funds, and partial rollback of IRS expansion, not the preservation or expansion of deglobalization-focused industrial spending in red states. (budget.house.gov)

Whether many Republicans privately accepted the deal because industrial-policy and re‑shoring investments were benefiting their own states and districts is plausible but ultimately speculative; legislators’ internal motivations and which specific arguments ‘got them over the line’ cannot be independently verified from available evidence. Since the observable outcome portion of the prediction (Republicans agreeing to raise/suspend the ceiling) was correct, but the claimed decisive argument and motivation cannot be confirmed or disproved, the overall prediction is best judged as ambiguous rather than clearly right or wrong.