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>> i'm christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the president's plan. he has another solution and it's simply says, spend less. >> i'm ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this "american morning." thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to "american morning." we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. >> and still divided this morning. they a...

And so i'm hopeful once this document comes out, once we pass it in the house we'll see reaction on the part of the president and the democrats in the senate. because so far, what we've heard out of leader reed is that social security doesn't even have a problem. so we really, i think, need to be honest with the people, confront these problems and get on to the issue of tax reform. all this is about how we're going to attract more business to start investing here to create jobs. that's what all this is about. this is not just we want to go and cut programs, we are trying to do this so we can r...

Food stamps. ten years ago people would have said food stamps are just for the very, very poor. these programs affect and help everybody. cut programs for autism, and you're cutting into the heart of middle-class families trying desperately to pay for the services their kids need. this is not just an assault against the poor. it's really going to be an assault against virtually everyone in society. there has to come a point about it breaks the tolerance of the public. look, understand that governors, both republican and democrats alike, you know, in '08, '09 and 2010, we all made different cut...

Estate bust enunemployment, it was hit by cold winter and the city runs the area's power, gas and water systems. >> people came in and said, we can't pay utility rates. council decided to lower utility rate to electricity, it's called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this fiscal year. >> reporter: the city put land up for sale, borrowed money, furloughed employees and cut programs. even that wasn't enough to save what makes up the biggest part of their budget, the police department. >> i think the council had no o...

As the city was dealing with problems like tax dollars and the real estate bust and unemployment, it was hit by a cold winder and the city runs the power, gas, and water systems. >> people came in and said the council decided to lower the utility rate for electricity. it's called a power cost adjustment. when they lowered that, that reduced anticipated revenue by $250,000 for the remainder of this year. we already had a shortfall. >> they're put land up for sale and furloughed employees and cut programs. that makes up the biggest part of the budget, the police department. >> the council had no...