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March of 2024. they could fight on this issue again in the election year. and extract more concessions from the white house. but as part of the negotiations, kevin mccarthy agreed to go further. on the left, you're hearing a lot of pushback about not just those work requirements that for food stamp that's are expanded in this proposal. also on other issues as well. the spending cuts that are part of this restarting student loan payments. they're also part of this negotiation. they didn't want any concessions. they said they sided with the white house's position that they would not negotiate wh...

Opposing this bill and we're waiting to hear from more progressive democrats that, is for certain but you -- the republicans have a very slim majority in the house, right? democrats have a slim majority in the senate. you have a democrat in the white house. compromise, negotiation, that's part of the deal with divided government as there is right now. i mean, why aren't you willing to compromise more and to negotiate more? what it sounds like you're being an obstructionist here. >> well, the american people gave the house republicans a majority when we ran on fiscal responsibility. >> very sli...

Conservatives didn't get everything they wanted but also pointed out that democrats got nothing. let's play that tape. >> what we have found since we've taken the majority we changed this country. we put in work requirements and spending less money the first congress to do that in a congress before. we've never capped the president that he can't just go spend 1.5 trillion. >> julie: his legislation cuts off funding increases for the i.r.s. in 2023. not good enough for a lot of conservatives. there is a list of them. republican clyde of georgia says he is a hard pass. look at his tweet on the d...

National debt and that has to be a big part of the conversation every time we talk about it because both parties have been complicit in getting us here. yes, democrats are better at spending than republicans are but republicans have been complicit in this as well and just like joe biden when he was in the senate voted for conditions on the debt ceiling increase, eight times in the last 35 years we have negotiated some spending cuts, they've always been in context or in conjunction with a debt ceiling increase. this is not new or uncharted territory. what is new and uncharted our debt to gdp is...

Conference. i'm not thrilled with this bill right now. i'm not going into the bills committee with a very positive view towards this bill. >> mike: if you blow it up on wednesday, if you win and it's defeated, then what? the deadline, according to the treasury secretary is monday. that doesn't give you much time. >> yeah. i mean, they should have thought about that before 104 days went by where joe biden didn't do anything at all and a deal cut going into memorial day weekend without all of us around the table deciding whether this was in the best interest of the united states of america. just...