Next. Then, utah senator mike lee on why he voted against this deal, reversing his support entirely by the time it reached the senate. What lee is calling Night And Day compared to whatwhat republicans limitsavegrow acd initially promised. Thenly, the stumble seen rod the world, President Biden takee another fall if while speaking at the air force Graduation Asth 2024 hopefuls line up to take h his joisb and two more faces are expected to join in the fray in the upcoming week. Former speaker othf The House Na Gingrich and pollster Robert Cahaly on the gop primary season as former President Trump stillp leads the pack two months before the first gop primary debate. Then, fbi director Christopher Wray expected tor deliver the document tomorrow t thathe allegedly ties thenvicet president joe bidehen to a 5 million Bribery Scheme with aer Foreign National in exchange for policy decisions. Coming up, congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna on the oversight committees next move to prove jo me biden and his family have been Influence Peddling for decades. Then, why she voted against the Debt Ceiling Bill with as well just signed into law by President Biden. W its all right here, right now on Sunday Morning futures. Maria and we begin this Sunday Morning with the very latest on the new Debt Ceiling Bill. The president signed into law this weekend the socalled fiscal responsibility act, an agreement to the raise the debt ceiling while putting some Spending Caps in place for the upcoming few years. Of the deal brokered by the House Speaker, ken mccarthy, and President BidenKevin Mccarthy suspends the debt limit until january 1st, 2025, it holds nondefense Spending Flat for 2024 and puts a 1 increase cap in nonDefense Spending in place for fiscal year 20 the 5. The bill also rescinds about 29 billion in unspent covid funds, and it repeals 1. 9 billion from the irs 80 Wind Falcon Towned in the socalled inflation reduction act. The bill passed the house despite 7 is republicans 71 republicans voting existence it including congressman scott perry who joined me on Mornings With Maria this past wednesday. At the end of this the, it took us three months, but hes getting a 4 trillion debt ceiling raise, it is unlimited. Lets be straight with the American People and el the them what theyre getting and not getting. Dont use the smoke and mirrors game in washington and act like youre saving things, because we are not. Were going to end up 4 trillion at least more in debt in 2 years. Maria joining me with reaction in this Sunday Morning exclusive is Speaker Of The House, congressman Kevin Mccarthy. And, mr. Speaker, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Congratulations to you after all of this work you put into this. How are you feeling this morning after the president signed the bill into law. I feel good, maria, because its the first time that were finally spending less than we spent the year before. This is the largest cut in american history. You know, if you look at the congressional budget office, if you look at the committee for a responsible federal budget, it shows that, that more than 2 the. 1 trillion 2 2. 1 trillion is going to to be the cut over the next 10 years. And think about where weve come from. The president said he would never negotiate with us, that he would only raise the debt ceiling with no cuts whatsoever or to raise taxes. There are no taxes, theres no new government programs. We actually got more than you thought in the process that we could get to this point. So its not perfect, but it is a beginning of turning the ship. Now weve got to do the rest of the job. Maria yeah. And i know that i said congratulations at the top of the show because you had to wrangle lots of different personalities and lots of different values within your membership, and you were able to do that and get everybody in line. But with i want to go through some of the criticism of this bill because some people say it really was different. For example, you had in your bill that passed the house, limitsavegrow, an ability to have Work Requirements for medicaid resip cents. That did not end up in the bill that the president signed. You had the ability to rescind that 80 billion of irs funding that the president wants to the hire 87,000 agents. That wasnt in the bill that the president signed. It was 1. 9 billion of the thats not true, maria. Youre saying things that are not true. Lets first walk through whats in the bill with because i can always vote against the bill for whats not in it, but lets see whats in it. First of all, limitsavegrow we said we wanted to take the spending levels back to 2022. Well, we actually increased defense and increased veterans, but nondefense with veterans out, we took it below the 22 level. That gave democrats a lot of problems. We wanted to repeal all the irs agents. Theyve already put that money in there. We repealed the 1. 4 billion they would spend on hiring new agents this year, is so no new agents are being hired. But we also repiled another repealed another 20 billion in the future that we can redistrict. I think that money would be redistrict. I think that money would be better used in hiring Border Patrol agents. We already are got more than 21 billion. Were come back next year. No new irs agents are hired. Maria okay. This is the largest cut. I herald you earlier say, yeah, but more democrats voted for it. Lets just put this in perspective. When republicans only had the house and the democrats had white house, on average only 24 of republicans voted for it. This was at 67 , three times as much. But you also look at the story of the last ten Debt Ceilings where republicans had the administration, only 65 of republicans voted for it. So even higher level than that. Maria yeah. So that really shows the truth about this. But democrats will vote for Debt Ceilings, republicans will not. We hit a twothirds mark. The thing you want to look at is which democrats voted against this . Aoc, bernie sanders. The progressives. Maria okay. Why did the they vote against it . Because we did get Work Requirements in welfare reform. Did we it get it in everything . No. But we got it in welfare that puts people back to work, the core of what we looked for. Maria but to be clear, the bulk of that money in the irs, which was your priority the, which was conservatives priority, they do not want this president to hire 87,000 agents, the bulk of that money is still in the inflation reduction act, and he can use that. So youre talking about the 20 the billion over the following year. On clear, the bulk of that that money is still in the bill that the president signed. And then theres the Defense Spending okay, maria, maria, pause for one moment. Maria, pause for one moment. That was already in law. We do not have the senate, we do not have the presidency, but we just stopped them from hiring any irs agents. And we also took another 20 billion going into the future. And now we only have the house. So we need the senate and the presidency. The next time well address this we have an opportunity to win the senate and the presidency. So whats interesting to me is that youre going to the argue sometime in the future when you stopped it today. So if we were strong today with a fivestate majority in the house, think about how strong well be when we have the senate and the white house. Its interesting to me if we had a success today thats not good enough for something in the future. I didnt say this was perfect, but i stopped any irs agent from being hired today. Maria which is good news. So i think that would be good enough of. Instead what would be the option, maria, to have a clean debt ceiling and relate them ou . Or the Work Requirements or not need for reform or be able to, be able to strengthen the military but cut the nondefense lore than 2022 . Maria all very if you want perfect legislation even when you have a majority of republicans in the house and senate and the presidency, we never had this. Maria all very good points. This is with one house. Maria yeah. Congressman, i want to get your take on the appropriations process here, because i wonder if Chuck Schumer is going to be able to blow all of this up by the time any of this gets to the senate in terms of the power of the purse. That the republicans are always talking about. Lets talk about the rules around this. If you dont if you get your work done and you deliver the 12 Appropriations Bills on time, then it goes to the senate. Cant Chuck Schumer sit on this and let it stall and then at the end of the day if youre trying to hold back money, for example, for the Fbi Headquarters that they want 3. 5 billion to have a new headquarters bigger than the pentagon, cant Chuck Schumer say, well, were not going to get our work done, so we go back to to prior levels, there you go, they get their money for the headquarters. Well, maria, that wont be the case. But, first, lets see instead of worrying about whats going to happen in the future, lets deal with whats in front of us today. I have watched time and genre palins and democrats in the House Republicans not do their job. Ive watched your show people rally against these omnibus bills that are sitting before us right before christmas. What we were trying to do is change the structure of washington. So if washington doesnt do their job, what are the consequences, where can the American People stand up. So it doesnt matter if its Chuck Schumer, doesnt matter if its myself. If we do not pass the fundamental responsibility we have with 12 the appropriation bills, cut 1 across the board. It doesnt and to be fair in law, whatever the current ratings are, whatever the current score is, you cut 1 . Maria yeah. So you know what happens then . It doesnt matter what position you like, everybody gets cut if you to dont do your job. Maria if you get maria, it creates a new structure that forces congress to do their job. Maria if you get that 1 cut, if you get to that point, if you get to that point where youve got to get that 1 cut in, does defense take a bigger hit than other spending . Maria, no. Everybody on the board gets 1 across the board. So one thing i have found, that if somebody wants to vote no, they can always think, well, what happens if something happens in the future. Im thinking about today. If i took that approach, the president said he would never if even talk to me about raising the debt ceiling, so should i have just quit and let him raise a clean debt can ceiling . Maria right. Should we have been able to take the victories maria listen, i know you have a victory, i said is it at the top of the show, congratulations. Ive got to get your ache on the fbi because here, too, you got pushback. You want this document from Christopher Wray. He says hes going to deliver it tomorrow. If he does not allow the entire committee to see it, where are we . What happens then . Well, again, maria, lets look at where we first started. When we realized there was a document, we sent a subpoena. He did not want to comply with the subpoena. I called the director and told him i need this subpoena, we have a responsibility to oversee the fbi, a constitutional responsibility. If you do not send this, we hold you in con empty. Last contempt. Last week i was actually on fox friends as the deadline came, and i spoke directly to christopher to Commissioner Wray that i will move contempt. He then changed his mind that he would let the chairman and the rankers see the document and bring it to the house. That is not good enough. That is also not good enough for the secretary of state, to think youre only going to show one member. We have a responsibility of oversight. If they do not comply and allow every person on oversight, republican or democrat thats their responsibility to the members of congress to see this document, i will move Contempt Charges against the director. Maria all right. You brought another issue up that i think is very important here. The fbi wants a new headquarters. If you looked at in todays dollars what the pentagon cots, its about 900 million. They want to spend roughly 4 billion to start. Maria wow. Four times i do not think thats the best use of our money. I also wonder, do we need one big, large fbi building, and does it need to be back in virginia, or should it be in maryland or should it be in texas if youre doing cybersecurity or others. The president himself is fighting a bill i passed to bring federal workers back to work with. 50 of federal workers are not coming in. I think its responsible that they come in and do their job. But if thats the argument, wouldnt it be better if we had smaller offices across the country where fbi agents could help local Law Enforcement to solve human trafficking, to solve cybersecurity . I think they have a lot of challenges here, and this is going to be a big responsibility in oversight of republicans in congress in dealing with appropriations. We just had a large victory to turn the ship and begin to turn turn the ship. Weve got so much more work to do. But the one thing you learn about me, maria, i never give up on the American People, and im not going to give up now. Maria all right. A feisty Speaker Of The House this morning. We appreciate your time. Thank you so much, congressman. Thank you, maria. Maria Kevin Mccarthy joining us. Quick break, and by the time that bill got to the senate, my next guest said he would do everything in his power to sop its passage. Next, hell tell me why he believes more democrats voted for the bill than republicans. Mike lee are from utah is here on the other side of this. Age is just a number, and mines unlisted. Try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. 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You just heard the speakers explanation of bill. Your reaction. Im still not persuaded, not persuaded at all. Look, at the end of the day this process has failed time and time again for decades to control deficit spending. This does so because democrats and repalins alike have refused to the engage in actual compromise and instead decide to Fund Everything or as much of everything as they possibly can without economizing. Nobody in the world gets to do this.