kevin mccarthy just passed the toughest test ever as speaker, trying to keep the republicans in line, and the debt ceiling agreement is no further along, but the next move comes to president buyken. president biden. and now, gender affirming care. and now, he is accused of killing and dismembering his wife, and soon, he will be in court for his arraignment, and we will be covering all of these stories coming in on cnn news cent central. this hour, we start on capitol hill, and kevin mccarthy pulled it off. he passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling by an additional 31 trillion, but in order to do that, he wanted ending student loan forgiveness, and ending the hiring at the irs, and he said that the new bill would trim the bill in the next seven years. there were four republicans adding against the bill, and if you add it up up, it is just enough for the republicans to pass it. with that having been said, this bill has no chance of passing the republican-led senate a
level will be cut. that is nonnegotiable. so we have looked at some of the cuts to food assistant protrams, and clean energy as well, but it is coming to the x date, and the date that the analysts have said that could occur as early as may 2nd, and janet yellen is looking as to when it could default will lead to catastrophic moves whernl it comes, but for the time being, the white house ont wanting a