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That is bill the senate needs to pass. 45 senators have signed on being in support. that means the senate cant pass anything else without those 45 senators. my hope would be the that schumer and the president would not suffer any consequences. >> a lot of republicans have voted to raise the debt ceiling in the past. including under republican presidents. your colleague, matt gaetz, said that the deadline this june 1st deadline, that a default isnt real. that its made up. how do you feel about th...

Many Democratic leaders just won’t give up their nefarious court-packing schemes. They also keep repeating flagrant falsehoods to support the idea.

Letter, talking about the 14th amendment, but also we have heard a lot of talk about work requirements. what are some of the red lines that if they made it into a deal, senate democrats would not play ball? >> i think we would need to look at the whole package. not try to pick things out of it. but obviously a matter of concern to senate democrats is that the we have a tax system that is unfair, that allows billionaires to pay lower tax rates than firefighters, and if republicans wont give an in...

The deadline that Congress is facing regarding the debt ceiling is June 1, which is precisely two weeks away.

Pelosi and schumer required bush and others at times to do things liberals wanted to raise the debt ceiling. seven of the last ten times we have raised with reforms. kevin mccarthy has done a hell of a job with a package that would lead us to begin to get us out of debt. the senate republicans not going to give votes to democrats. raise the debt ceiling, but save some money, permitting reform and put people to work who can work. >> sandra: clock is ticking, when does it happen? >> before the mar...

You folks in the senate about, what they you think about how theyre. going >> well, the schumer and mcconnell and democratic leader in the house all took default off the table. mccarthy wont. look at this, way chris. speaker mccarthy went to new york, went to wall street, maybe three weeks ago. he got his marching orders. his corporate wish lip list, and he has no control of his right-wing extremist caucus and weve got to keep the pressure on. you do that in part and weve all talked about this i...

Where he was -- basically she did come off as confused and appeared to not remember some of this as well. her job is impacted right now and it will be interesting to see how democratic leaders basically respond to this report as well. and see if they do ask her to step down. >> ive heard democrats and republicans say it is an absolute tragedy this is what shes going to be remembered for and not her trailblazing career. >> absolutely. and youve heard that for years. that has really been a concern...

The Biden administration, along with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, are united in the determination to use the manufactured debt ceiling crisis to implement brutal attacks on social programs.

It is a classic example in addition to the physically responsibility. but there was a bill that we all know about ten years ago, the game of eight, for republicans and for democrats, john mccain, senator rubio, senator durbin, and schumer, and others had a bipartisan bill that came out of the senate that would address this issue. but then steve bannon and others in the freedom caucus decided that they would use this very racial unethical process to divide the country. i would hope that we would ...

Conversations are going on, but im not optimistic at this point. >> let me play what he had to say yesterday about all this. >> the staff has met the last two days. we think its productive for the staff to meet again. i have not seen from there a seriousness of the white house that they want to deal. it seems like they want to default more than they want to deal. >> to your point, you dont think he has enough running room with his caucus when he has four or five votes to play with there. >> what...