how hard is 12 days? president biden seemed to hint earlier this morning that he thought were two to three weeks away and we can argue there, but how hard is this june 1st deadline? well, i indicated in my last letter to congress that we expect to be unable to pay all of our bills in early june and possibly as soon as june 1st, and i will continue to update congress, but i certainly haven t changed my assessment. so i think that that s a hard deadline. i want to point out something that a lot of house conservatives just simply don t believe what treasury is doing. i m going to read you one quote here. some conservative republicans have said for months that they felt treasury secretary janet yellen in a bid to put pressure on the majority and she s anything to play it out now saying it s a crisis and the day
moderate trust. and the reason, chuck, is that the fbi the opponents of the fbi, the conspiracy theorists and the people who want to diminish our institutions, they just need 10% of the truth, 15% of the truth to make a living and bring down the institution. so the fbi has to raise its standards because they can t give these people an inch. within an inch, they can bring it down. i ll be honest. christopher wray hides. he hides. he only goes before congress and doesn t defend the institution. there is consternation within the fbi about that, and the way he postures publicly, and there are a couple of places where it will come to a head this year, and that is the two special counsel investigations and the hunter biden investigationing and the reauthorization of the fisa warrant, and the white house is worrying about it for months, and it will get worse. and all of this will be on
to be blunt with you we re not sure what deal is on the table. the white house is not serious. they came up with a proposal to send $30 billion more than they wanted to spend. they re not taking a look at the reality of where our country is fiscally. joe biden is saying he s cut 1.7 million from the deficit and people are saying that s not true. he s a trillion dollars over what cbo was projecting spending was going to be because after all of the covid spending and the last year of president trump that congress wasn t going to extend that and joe biden did. so we re in a situation right now where the only plan in washington has been passed by the house of representatives and joe biden is not serious about the negotiating table and at this point the question is what s the senate going to do. where s chuck schumer in all of that because the senate has not done any work at all and joe biden has not done any work at all. i want to get you to respond to something president trump said ab
circumstances given the legal uncertainty around it and given the tight time frame we re on. so my devout hope is that congress will raise the debt ceiling and pay all of our bills. but if it doesn t happen, okay, and we re at this point, are you just going to sit there and pick and choose, or why not go and pay and then, you know, it s one of those, are you going to pay all of our debts and essentially let the courts tell us, you shouldn t have? if we breach the debt ceiling i understand wanting to use it now, but are we really going to sit there and let bills go unpaid and not even trying this? we take the debt ceiling seriously as constraint on our ability to pay bills that are coming due and my assumption is that if the debt ceiling isn t raised there would be hard
happen, it s going to reach the governor s desk in the next few days, but ultimately, the nra, they work their magic, and they got virtually every single republican to vote no because they re scared of a primary. and john cornyn s a wonderful guy, but he s also a former whip. 60 votes pretty hard. i want to ask you about this, a lot of what was in that last bill that did pass were grants to states whether it was to enact red flag laws, close the boyfriend loophole. the idea was congress wasn t going to make any state do anything, but they were going to try to give the states the tools to take those steps. you mentioned your state of michigan has not yet passed an extreme risk protection order, but they may do so this year. how do you lead all those horses to water? only i think 19 states have red flag laws so far. you can lead them to water, how do you make them drink, how do you convince particularly red states that if indiana and