i will use all powers available to me in the senate to have amendment vote to undue catastrophe for defense. i support raising the debt limit for 90 days to correct this disaster for deference. maybe that s a good compromise increase for 90 days and come back to the table and maybe compromise and agree on what needs to be done. ralph norman also this morning said is he not buying the june 1st or june 5th deadline. he thinks we should push it farther that we can last longer than that. steve: ultimate game of chicken. brian: yeah. guys. listener, defense spend something absolutely a priority. it s never been a priority with democrats even when they are in power which to me i can t wrap my head around. wouldn t you want the strongest defense possible. china is building up a way we never seen possible. you can t have everything and what republicans should do is
they are both difficult. yeah, they are both difficult. but you have got more republicans in the senate that see the harm of playing chicken with american credit, especially at the moment when things are starting to go pretty well for the american economy, right? obviously, we have had very low unemployment. you are starting to see inflation come down. this is just not the moment to play these games. so, i think it s an easier time to get the votes in the senate. i think there is at least ten republicans that are not interested in playing this game of chicken. yeah. there is news indicating that it s about two dozen republican senators saying that we want what the house wants, which, we know what that is but what that means is, half the republicans at least in the senate are not with the house. they are not publicly saying, i am handcuffed to kevin mccarthy. so, the ten or more could be available. you have had this sort of interesting phenomenon in the united states senate, we
mike: olivia, are you yesterday for four or five months of this? we don t hit it until june, right? mike, i cannot tell you how many family budget analysis i have started to hear and you saw on the screen. with howie, we are going to be seeing this speaker mccarthy took on a very on otherwise stick tone. good start wants to get it done early. i don t think that s going to be what the reality both are sort of playing this game of chicken. they have their different demands. i do think we are going to see negotiations the point is when that really gets serious that s a whole different ballgame. mike: from our new fox news poll issues voters are concerned about. inflation, higher prices, 79% democrats. 94% republicans. and then you see the crime and opioid addiction and below that debt limit debate 59% for democrats. 77% for republicans. marc, as a former presidential speech writer. looking ahead to the state of the union address. do you expect much from the president on this issue?
republicans that are not interested in playing this game of chicken. yeah. there is news indicating that it s about two dozen republican senators saying that we want what the house wants, which, we know what that is but what that means is, half the republicans at least in the senate are not with the house. they are not publicly saying, i am handcuffed to kevin mccarthy. so, the ten or more could be available. you have had this sort of interesting phenomenon in the united states senate, where a group of republicans who used to kind of sit on the sidelines have frankly moved towards the democrats. they have started to be more interested in compromise as a reaction to the direction that the kevin mccarthy republicans have taken. and so, you have seen all this compromise come out of the united states senate. you are seeing some of those republicans in the senate talk more reasonably about the debt ceiling, in part, because there is a small group of them that do not want this part