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Shuts down, if we dont do a deal with a debt ceiling increase, if we dont address -- look, technology is moving so fast. theres a need for regulation, and we need to make sure were preparing our kids for the future. congress has a role on that. but one of the lessons we have to take away from this is the situation from kevin mccarthy is in right now is of his own making. if this doesnt happen for him, hes not a martyr. the fact that he tried to negotiate with this fringe element, sometimes to th...

But again, the win in the senate gave us leverage for how we go forward. >> there is a lot more fat to be trimmed beyond entitlement programs. they want congress to do three things. cut off the credit card the rest of the year. no more borrowing in 2022. pass a budget. something that hasnt happened for the past seven years and fire any budget chair that doesnt do their job. >> the narrative in the media has been pretty slanted as though this will be the gutting of social security and medicare if...

Dollars we keep funding a debt ceiling increase, but its the nature of having a juniority is that -- major seizure disorders is theres additional lev -- majority to use over the biden administration and they have to negotiate with us to get what they want. its basic negotiation. we need to not roll over every time they need something. we have an ability to get something that our voters sent us to washington to do. rachel: does that mane you need a new leader in the senate as well once you get th...

Send to the senate, tomorrow. its called a message, in this situation. senator schumer plans to employ a rarely used senate maneuver, that will allow debate to begin on that message from the house, without having to clear a 60 vote threshold, just a permit the debate. it is the same procedure that senator schumer used to speed a debt ceiling increase through the senate, in december. now that, senator schumer has publicly named the problem that the democrats are facing in the senate, when he has ...

Message that the house will send to the senate tomorrow. its called a message in this situation. senator schumer plans to employ a rarely used senate maneuver that will allow debate to begin on that message from the house without having to clear a 60-vote threshold just to permit the debate. it is the same procedure that senator schumer used to speed a debt ceiling increase through the senate in december. now that senator schumer has publicly named the problem that the democrats are facing in th...

That time is of the essence, lindsay, because not only do we have mid-term elections around the corner next year, but redistricting is under way around the country, and democrats concerned if they dont tackle the voting rights issue right now it could be too late and we will see the affects of that in the elections in november. >> what other issues are being thrown around right now as potential carveouts as well, and its not just voting issues, right? >> we already saw the administration and con...

February but republicans were two votes short of derailing it over the desire to stop president biden mandates. mike lee of utah said they will keep bringing this up any chance they get. here to discuss gloria borger and commentator charlie dent, former republican congressman from pennsylvania. gloria, first to you, were a week and a half out for the deadline for the debt ceiling increase. is this something we expect that theyre going to continue to bring up and leet to this catastrophe as we he...

He did run and a lot of people on the left dont like for this to be highlighted, but he did run as a consensus builder, as someone who spent years in the senate working with republicans and democrats. and now he actually has something to show, a bipartisan product. if he can get through this debt ceiling increase that is necessary, and a budget deal that will be bipartisan, debt ceiling democrats may have to do that on their own, but if he can show progress on the budget deal, that should help i...

Progressions, real things that they can say by these times where these provisions expire, like that debt ceiling increase, that they have seen some movement on these negotiations. thats when they kind of want to see it by. but its hard to see after those comments from manchin and sinema and really still no package on the ground, how that comes together so quickly. but still, we will see president biden today out in connecticut talking about child care and the child care components within the soc...

Argue about it and argue about the size and the scope, but we are at least trying to do stuff to improve the lives of the american people. the republicans just dont give a damn. they arent doing anything. they tried to destroy the economy by bringing down the -- not even voting for the debt ceiling increase. when democrats have done it time and time again. so, one party fighting for folks and delivering. >> got it. >> one party sitting on the sidelines. >> jamie harrison, always good to see you,...