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Two-year budget deal that would remove some thorny issues as the house is about to transition to a new speaker. the dole was negotiate bet representatives of the white house and the topyb@vh four congressat leaders, retiring speak john boehner, senate majority leafed are misch mcconnell, and nancy pelosi, and harry reid. ride called for doing with i. -- doing away if a sequester cuts. >> we know that fiscal organizations are ongoing as the detail colorado and especially if an agreement is reache...

The debt ceiling from next week until march 2017. it would set a budget parameter, the overall spending goal for the next two years. its expected to address massive medicare premium hikes for r 87 mi million americans, and it adjusts sequester cuts to defense and domestic programs. josh earnest chose his words carefully. >> we have talked about these base cuts simply because nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. >> if the house and congress can round up enough votes, it would prove...

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Its unlikely the democrats in the house will be able to get all that they want. republicans are talking about job creation and they are talking about deregulation. democrats are talking about spending on education, transportation, long-term education. they say the same thing but there are very, very different visions on how to balance the budget and make it happen. its deeply invested and replacing the sequester cuts with more reasonable ways of talking about our budget and across the constituen...

House idea first. then they didnt like how it was turning out, so the white house turned and said, you know, those darn republicans made us do sequester. and then it became bad. it was good, then it became bad. now apparently theyre going to try to spin it back the other way a second time, saying those sequester cuts, thats austerity. see what were doing for you? its amazing the verbal gymnastics theyre playing with. >> let me get julies take on it politically. maybe im wrong. i think it is stra...

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Ryan says, you know, you have to have going forward. but then we hear thunder on the right. so whats the inside story? >> the thunder on the right and thunder on the left. part of the problem is this is a deal cut by two people, the two budget chiefs in the house and senate and now 535 other members of the congress that have like 2 days to study this and then vote on it and race out of town for the holidays. for a lot of folks it smacks of the cram the work in and deal with the consequences down...

Good morning from washington. its thursday, december 5th, 2015. im luke russert for chuck todd. chuck is on the way back from a focus group in ohio. you dont want to miss "the daily rundown." its a political junkies dream. there may be an early christmas present taking shape on capitol hill. a budget agreement may be done within the week. negotiators are said to be optimistic about their chances. there lots of moving parts. heres what we are hearing about whats taking shape. it would well most l...

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Extension of unemployment benefits was not included in this deal. we will see if thats enough to make some democrats vote no. gretchen? >> this deal, it actually faced more heat from republicans in the senate. what are their concerns? >> reporter: well, some like the actual sequester cuts for putting firm caps on spending here in washington. which has been so difficult to do. others dont like the idea that this cut some benefits going to retired veterans. so there are some trying to see if there...