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Weekend is scheduled to speak with speaker mccarthy by phone later this evening. you mentioned there were negotiating teams late last night, back at it this morning only to emerge around midday. we saw speaker mccarthy and he said they were taking a chipotle break. they returned with chips and queso for the press and went back to the closed-door session. they say progress is being made and republican negotiators say they are getting closer on the big stuff. but there are still some sticking poin...

Come to a budget agreement, it puts in for the next six years it will be 99%, so thats a 1% cut on our annual budget, and having a republican house and a democratic senate, its obviously a good idea if the two houses cant come to an agreement on things. will: congressman, id love to get your reaction to to some of the other republican congressmen who have expressed some disappointment this this deal over the debt ceiling, whether or not thats ken buck, dan bishop, senator mike lee. theres a sens...

And introduces work requirements for certain welfare programs. joey: were going to bring in now congressman greg steube to react to this breaking news. congressman, good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. well, theres a lot of good stuff in there. it limits top-line federal spending by 1% on annual growth for the next six years, it puts those work requirements in, it pulls the covid funds back that havent been used. it also puts a pay-go requirement in for the white house. if theyre...

Resistant to new work requirements for some welfare programs saying the latest g.o.p. ovaritis cuts snap benefits beyond the house-passed bill and harsher than what trump tried to do. its not being echoed by house democratic leadership that theyre making a good effort. >> speaking mccarthy is beholding to the most extreme members of his conference. >> they want to end social security as we know it. >> the white house is not disavowing whats being said. >> i believe he is the leader of the democr...

Foxs alexandria hoff live in d.c. with the latest. hi, alex. >> reporter: yeah. 10 a.m. local time in japan, so much earlier today, president biden did receive an update from his negotiating team here in washington. we dont know exactly what that was, but the white house did come out with a statement soon after saying that the president essentially feels that republicans have turned away from a good faith promise to negotiate and are holding the economy hostage. communications director ben lebol...

At being put in the back seat by the president, pushing him not to give away too much as republicans want to add work requirements to some welfare programs. this was the house minority leader this morning and then the presidents parting words as he took off for japan, take a listen. >> work requirements, so-called work requirements are nonstarter. >> im not going to accept work requirements that go much beyond what is already -- i voted years ago for the work requirements that exist but its poss...

Heinrich has that story tonight live from the north lawn, good evening, jacqui. >> geographic to you, bret. the white house says president biden will get multiple updates a day while he is overseas. but congressional democrats are showing frustration that nobody is talking to them. evidenced today by a fizzled push to raise taxes on the wealthy to boost revenue which kevin mccarthy flatly rejected saying spe spend is what drove inflation. >> bound for japan, president biden says his three deputi...

White house saying about negotiations. >> in effect they are negotiating to raise the debt limit, but democrats are characterizing it as separate and simultaneous so they can maintain their rhetoric, their stance they will not negotiate over raising the debt ceiling. but since the last white house meeting, the two sides have found a couple areas of agreement on clawing back unused covid funds and also possibly permitting reforms as republicans push to unleash energy. but signature programs like ...

That means an impasse and talks to raise the debt ceiling. >> house republicans are tellin president biden he must conside spending cuts if he wants their vote to raise the debt ceiling. kevin mccarthy afrin up a range of options from trim to non-defense spending two recouping covid funds to means testing for welfare programs. >> where at a standstill, the only pass for an agreement between this administration is through the house of representatives and with the speaker. there has been no return...

Conversations. >> youre exactly right, jim. it is dead on arrival. the brill as is will not pass currently in congress. republicans have been keen to point that out. the house members said this bill is dead on arrival and these are the demands that we need in order to secure support for voting for that bill. the demands include ending student loan forgiveness programs. cushing funding for the irs, slashing money for climate change prevention and putting work requirements on welfare programs. pre...