We went to get your thoughts on this deal that has been reached to fund the government, to push up the debt limit. Involved, butost how they are achieved. You can give us a call in three lines this morning. If you want to post on our social media pages, cspanwj on twitter. On facebook facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email at journal cspan. Org. This deal taking place tentatively yesterday. In the New York Times, Congress Strikes a deal with the president. Would alert default. Is here. Bolton could you tell us more about how you achieved this report . That this is something john boehner, and Mitch Mcconnell, harry reid, and nancy pelosi their representatives negotiated it with the legislative liaison for the white house and shaun donovan. They did it quietly. There wasnt a lot of talk about a deal coming together. There wasnt much visibility of the principles in a room together. It was done quietly and, a lot of people as a surprise when it came out yesterday. A pretty important deal. Stent Discretionary Spending by 112 billion if you include the overseas Contingency Operations fund. On top of the 80 billion that you mentioned. It is a big boost to Discretionary Spending, and has reforms to entitlement programs. Especially Social Security. Move toward flat benefits. Be tied tos would the federal Poverty Level and set of predisability earnings. Host as far as how it gets paid for, what has been the reaction specifically for those concerned about medicare and Social Security to help pay for the effort. Guest the democrats were not yesterday. Nd andSocial Security, disability benefits reform, that was something that the Heritage Foundation was proposing and one of its think pieces. This morning, they are coming out to oppose the debt and budget deal. Even though there is a Social Security reform, or something the advocated for, they say that it is still not good enough. Heritage action is coming out opposed to the debt and budget deal. So is the club for growth. File republicans, i talked to some of the senators from yesterday. By and large they were ok with happy thatcain was defense spending has been increased. He says it is not everything that he wanted. It was short of his ideal level, but he will take it. The republicans who were upset were the farm state republicans because there is a 3 billion offset that comes from cutting Crop Insurance and that is something that roberts was very upset about. The house side there was a meeting with the entire republican conference. It is in line with the Heritage Action. They criticize this deal. On the house side, could they cause issue once both take place . Guest yeah. I think very much so. If you have Heritage Action club for growth, two important advocacy groups in the right coming out against it, it will peel some rep republican votes off. If you are going to be reforming medicare, extending the medicare sequester, you think you could lose some democratic votes. We are characterizing as a challenge to pass through the house. Host what is the timeline now that we have specifics . When could we see votes . Guest my understanding is the house was supposed to post this bill last night, which would allow them to vote on wednesday. That is when paul ryan becomes the new speaker. He becomes the new speaker on thursday. I think the idea is for the house to get this done on wednesday. John boehner says that he wants to clean up the barn a little bit. The idea is to get this dirty Business Done before ryan comes in at the end of the week. Host the is talking to us about the white house and congress reaching a tentative 80 billion budget deal. Stay with us as we take your calls. You have heard some of the details and we will get some more. It would raise the debt limit and that would take place until march of 2017. That is some of the details coming out including increased offsets, and raising spending caps for two years. Andre, what do you think of this deal . Caller the deal is pretty good. I like that it was done to everett the default, but my question is, how did low oil prices rusher congress to avoid default . Much did china moved to cut Interest Rates by 25 basis points . Host lorraine, from redford, michigan. Caller i would like to know, why pick on medicare and Social Security, when those people need it the most . Its picking on the poor again . Host alex, give us a sense of what we might hear because of turning to medicare and Social Security . Guest i think that democrats will be very concern. Before an to bed, got a call from someone before i went to bed, i got a call from someone who is autistic and was concerned that he would lose his money every month because of these reforms. We did not have the text of the bill, but as we look at it more closely, if you tie the Social Security disability deficit to the federal poverty rate rather than predisability earnings, in some cases it may mean more money for you. But, why are people with disabilities being asked to pay for this . That is a good question. I think that one of the things that then mind is Social SecurityDisability Fund is due to get a big cut anyway. Yes, they are going to take a haircut, but if there wasnt something done to reform the program, there would be a substantial cut at a later date anyway. Money, andas out of something had to be done. I think there will be more of the same if there are not more deals done to give people haircuts, instead of waiting to lastminute to solve big liabilities. Ost 202 7488000 202 7488001. 202 7488002. And professional leadership reaching a deal on the white house that extends over two years. Dan, good morning caller democrats and republicans have worked to forge a compromise, but i think we need to continue to cut spending. The Social SecurityDisability Fund has been growing by leaps and bounds. The amount of money we have been spending is due for a cut. It is the new welfare. People that cannot get money on welfare claim some kind of mental disability or something in the government is giving it to them. Obama weo high, need to cut. It is perhaps because we are a bit too liberal on what we call disability. It is medicare and Social Security come under the gun. I have never heard anyone address the issue of the benefit package members the house and senate have which is beyond anything that anyone in the Public Domain has. Or the private sector. There is always money enough for that in the budget without any discussion. But those on another type of always to beem subject to cuts. I think it is ridiculous. To have it in the same budget where you cutting medicare and Social Security increases the defense budget. It is about time that this country stops being the defender of the entire world. Other countries have armies and navies and are wellequipped to handle it in their own area. We have the only ship in the waters in the ukraine. Britain and france have marvelous navies, as does germany. Onesre we always the having to be the ones with the show of force . Host lets hear from del in pennsylvania. Democrat line. Caller answering this question, we are the ones who benefit by stealing all the Natural Resources. Bill,is is an outrageous i am with Bernie Sanders. He will oppose it 100 . Cuts in Social Security are unnecessary. This country is overflowing with money. The stock market was at an alltime high a couple months ago. It has to be stopped for the benefit of the people who will be walking to the street begging. There are too many people who dont have enough to eat, they are eating dog food. It is outrageous. Host thomas from new york on the republican line. Caller would like to address one of the issues. One of the previous collars had stated the need to cut spending. In this great country, in order for us to be strong, we keep forgetting the most important resources the American People. Even though they approve the budget, you have to understand that is more like putting up and eight on a gunshot wound bandaid on a gunshot wound. Lets like you trying to solve your house budget and you are only taking out to solve your housing issue. Host keep calling on the lines to give your thoughts on this legit deal. On this budget deal. Alex, there were some who wanted to see a shutdown to engage in larger issues about spending. What will be the reaction of those folks . Guest i think they will be pretty disappointed. The main disappointment is that you will be increasing Discretionary Spending. That is when republicans use the possibility of default and leverage to extract concessions from president obama. As Mitch Mcconnell likes to say, they were the first meaningful reductions in Discretionary Spending since the civil war. Korean war. He will now be signing off in a deal that will bus them, but he pay for ithem with mandatory spending cuts. Talking to some other republicans on the hill, they are not so happy that some things they would like very much like Crop Insurance is being cut to pay for nondefensive Discretionary Spending, and an array of things. Conservatives, especially those running for president , they are going to come out against the deal. But taking the temperature of the senate and republican conference yesterday, i would say that the majority of them supported. On the house side, people have been so exhausted by this leadership fight, i dont think there will be much of a fight. I think this passes both chambers. There will be grumbling but it will get done this week. Host have we heard reaction in aul ryan or others specifically paul ryan. Guest one of our house reporters emailed last night and said that ryan stayed silent in the meeting. There was a meeting to talk about this, and one of the outspoken conservatives got up and was very critical of the deal, i think the meeting got a little bit heated at times, but ryan, im told, stayed quiet. I think he is trying to stay out of this fight and let john boehner take the arrows. Host brian on the independent line. Caller i am against the gutting of Social Security. The one people get when they find out they are not mentally fit. Work and ihurt at need that money desperately. It is absolutely ridiculous they will sacrifice my people to keep rich people happy. That is one of the reasons i am voting for bernie. Go bernie. Bgo bernie. Host dennis from louisiana. Caller i would like to comment on this cut for Social Security and medicaid. They could cut some of the subsidies for the Oil Companies, especially here in louisiana. Theybsidize every well, dont pay taxes for 10 years, etc. But the Defense Department needs to be audited now. They cannot even tell you where the billions of dollars they flew to afghanistan went. Plus, farm subsidies, industrial subsidies, no taxes for 10 to 15 need to be done before you try to balance the budget on the backs of the lame and the old people. Host a couple tweets this morning. A rare moment of congress doing something. This does not mean they earn their pay checks and perks. Also tweeted, an 80 billion debtthat raises our spenders in bc. D. C. Governed by crisis deal that doesnt reflect the will of the house but the will of the speaker. Dave. i am the thing that gets me is we paid into this, and was taken out of our checks and everything. By the time i was 40 years old, i started receiving from the government saying, if i ever became disabled or ever retired, that i would get this much each month. I cannot understand, it is money we have paid in, and it was entrusted that we would receive these moneys, that if we ever became disabled or something. I am 58 and i had a ton of steel dropped on me. I am all busted up. The thing is, i would love to work if i could, but i dont have the legs left and stuff like that. They will cut my money and i already paid into this and worked hard all my life. I have been working since i was 14 years old. It has got me totally upset. I think it is a bad deal. Host tony from cape coral, florida. Independent line. Caller i had a question for mr. Bolton if he is still on the line. I missed you by about six minutes this morning. I am on ssdi. I have been on there for about 12 years now. Month once they take out my Social Security and medicare. Is there going to be a drastic cut to that . I am paralyzed. I paid into this and i heard rumors they would cut it 20 . Was wondering, if he is still on the line, if there is information he can give me about my benefits. Guest would you host would you care to weigh in on this question . Guest i have not looked at the precise text of what that reform looks like, but it is something published by the Heritage Foundation. They lay out their plan for improving the Social Security, Disability Insurance. He should take a look at that. One of the things in the heritage, they were pushing this and the republicans are pushing this, if you look at the heritage. Org report, you will see in the reform they propose individuals who currently receive ssdi benefits but continue to receive the same checks. This would apply to new applicants and beneficiaries. Of the rough guideline now and will have to look at the text itself. When i was reporting this last night, i did not yet have the text. Host are we expecting to hear from john boehner today . Guest absolutely. I think he will have to weigh in. I cannot predict the future, but he will have to at some point. We will probably hear from him today. Host alex bolton has been on the phone, from the hill, talking about this deal and guiding us through it. We appreciate you spending extra time with us this morning. Guest my pleasure. Host stella, from new york. Democrat line. Caller my question is, they rp, theying at aa medicare rates would pay out 104 and . 59 per month. They said they would raise it up 104. 59 per month. They said they would raise it up 59, it was supposed to go to 2015 rates. I am wondering if it is going to go up in 2016 . Host i dont have details about that, but i will tell you what the New York Times says. Saying this agreement would raise spending by 80 billion over two years, not increasing the emergency increase for the emergency war fund. And will be offset by cuttings to medicare and Social Security disability benefits as well as savings and an array of other programs. Those are some of the details we have even as it was being announced last night. More information expected today. Democrat line, from texas. Physically that you have a very enlightened public that listens to your comments, and most of the people this morning have said what i think. We should never cut the Social Security and medicaid due to the fact that we are forced to pay into those funds and i heard no mention of any cuts to the military or any subsidies that we give or any other programs. Another person mentioned the benefits of congress. There are other things they could pick on, other than what we are forced to pay into to begin with. We will get their thoughts on this deal as it is being announced later on. Amy goldstein talks about the latest when it comes to the health care plan. Saying when it comes to those with an Insurance Plan sold to the exchange, a 7. 5 increase is expected for the coming year, nearly four times bigger than a year ago and the rate will increase for 2016 compared to the average growth for this year that servey premiums as a benchmark for federal subsidies that help most consumers buying the act. There now, officials contend that the health plan will be for those willing to shop for the best rate. That cushioned by the fact nearly nine in 10 are eligible for tax credits taking subsidies into account. Nearly four and five people will have access to a health plan for which they pay no more than 100 in monthly premiums. Here is scott in oregon. Independent line. Caller i agree with the color from texas, why do they have to take out money on the backs of people on disability and Social Security. I am a new recipient. I have had four back surgeries. We dont choose to be retirement age or hurt. One of the ticket from Congress Money . Why do we pay so much to oversee countries . Somewherethey take it where people dont have any other recourse. I make 1000 a month and i barely live. They are going to shut my power off and i dont even have cable tv. Why cant they find a way to make it work for us . Next. Randy is up caller i would like to start by thanking you and all the folks behind the scenes bringing that to this nation and you are doing such a great job. I would like to see more. I have to agree with a lot of the colors this morning. I dont particularly like them going after disability, because i am on it and i am here in the crop country. Subsidies and other places. Oilcompanies sell strategic and they want to allow us to start dumping our oil out on the market. Those guys made enough money in and i have toars agree it is time for us to start working for the people. Guy, i am for Bernie Sanders and i believe that is the real american spirit. I think that is what he has got.