welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. closer, but to a deal or to a default. kevin mccarthy herds a bill through the house. it s guaranteed to go nowhere in the united states senate and far from certain to break the white house s negotiating promise. plus, ament here because donald trump raped me. e..en jean carroll is back on the witness stand after detailing an attack by the former president nearly two decades ago in a dressing room. and the mouse strikes back. disney makes ron desantis a defendant as the governor finds the polling gap between him and trump getting wider. up up first, a cross roads moment for president biden and house republicans. today a new number says the country is growing more slowly. but not as to dive into a recession. 12.1%, that s how fast the economy expanded in the first quarter. it falls off as you see the breakneck pace from the end of 2022. but the good from the report is very go
hearing and mark green on the border hearings that he is promises. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. busy news day and maybe some progress at the border. we don t know the details. let s get the latest from peter doocy at the white house. i notice looking through the list that the things that leaders are trying to highlight, a list that they sent us, things that they want us to see. electric vehicle charging stations at the border is listed anything above migration. there s a thing about a virtual platform. that says this will give migrants the information they need to come from mexico, the united states and canada and less likely to rely on smugglers that put their lives at risk. president biden s border trip has been overshadowed by allegations that he mishandled classified documents and accusations from the republicans that the itiniary in texas was lacking. what he did not do is he didn t meet with the border patrol union. you re talking the most
will probably be businesses pulling back and consumers will follow. businesses pull back on hiring, they start to lay off workers and then that causes a recession. so not typically how we see things, but nothing has been typical about this economy the last few years. nothing. absolutely nothing. excellent point there at the end. appreciate that. now let s factor in how the new numbers impact the debt showdown and this mark. the house speaker cleared a critical hurdle. 217-215, that the final vote on the debt limit raise. give kevin mccarthy his due. he kept his caucus together and he won, just barely, but he won. passage of his blueprint. but now the job gets harder. the white house says their calculous does not change and any republican push for spending cuts must be dealt with after the debt limit is raised without any conditions. with me in studio to share their reporting and insights, the associated press, tia mitchell,
of all possible worlds. they didn t reduce the spending and they got the blame for bringing the government to the precipice of a default. so maybe they have better tactics this time. maybe the circumstances will be different. we re some ways away from the debt limit raise. it s several months away. maybe things will change. the politics of this is not worked out well for republicans in the past. here s the larger point, neil. aishah talking about this vote to defund the $87 billion that congress passed to increase tax audits. there s lots of people that will support that and many people will think that s a positive step. myself inincluded. i don t think there s a lot of enthusiasm for the increase in the scale of the irs in this country. we know the money they re going after despite what chuck schumer said is not going to come from millionaires and billionaires because there s not enough money
of hiding restricted information about nuclear powered submarines in a peanut butter sandwich is in court and so is his wife, accused of assisting him. and we start with the latest from our nation s capitol. ali vitali on capitol hill, mike memoli at the white house and carlos robello. the house expected to vote today on that debt limit raise. do you expect that to be relatively drama free? it s a question asked with so much hope. this is one that we do expect to be relatively drama free, the house coming back from their recess just a little bit early. they ll leave town again after this vote is over. it sets up the official start of kicking this can down the road, making sure congress has to deal