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A whopping 76% think the economy is poor. here is the rub right now, bret. the president wants to keep spending across the federal government stagnant between 2023 and 2024. he wants d.o.d. to share in the proposed cuts coming if republicans. republicans say no dice on that. >> thank you. we've been through this before, the fiscal cliffs and we always go up to them. it seems like as the closer the negotiations are getting the farther apart they are as the debt clock continues to tick up. $250,000 per taxpayer. >> dana: it does feel the republicans led by kevin mccarthy who has been able to kee...

Medicare and if that wasn't enough there also has to have the interest on the national debt and tax refunds as well. every now and then us congress me to vote whether to raise the city government can spend more or suspended. currently the is a whopping 31.4 trillion, yes, trillion dollars. the us debt clock estimates that is around 90 for thousand dollars per person in the united states. —— 94. the cap was breacher earlier this year so we're currently in something called extraordinary measures. that is where the us treasury gives the government cash until it can work out what to do. there ...

The Senate Republicans shot down a short-term debt limit increase proposal, calling such an idea a "gimmick" and wishing to hammer out a deal sooner than later.

The House of Representatives passed a bill late Wednesday afternoon that would raise the nation's debt ceiling.

So mike ganzy, who retired. he was there the first two years. it's gotten relegated to a place where no one wants the rigger of it. when joe was governor, when i was in our state legislature, you had to get it done and you lived within a balanced budget amendment or statute. here, one side of the aisle is unapologetic about it and i think they want to do things that you actually borrow the money. we say we're fiscal conservatives and still go along with it. joe comes from a place, west virginia, indiana, where you can't get by with that and it would take political will, it would take pain to d...