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at any moment now, president biden is going to speak on the phone and finalize the bill. the president had this to say about the negotiations. reporter: mr. president, are you positive this deal will get to your desk? yes, it will. i m about to call mccarthy at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. reporter: what are the sticking points? none. should all democrats vote for this bill? still anyone s guess if the house has enough votes to get this bill to the president s desk. but speaker mccarthy says he s confident the deal will pass. back to february 1st, i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let america be able to work again, cut red tape, get work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit save grow. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted but that s in divided government, that s where we end ....
Agreement. on friday president biden on his way to camp david said they were very close to a deal and expressed some optimism and then yesterday the white house negotiators as well as hill negotiators weren t talking on the phone and virtually as they tried to strike this deal and it eventually happened with a call between president biden and house speaker mccarthy where they reached that deal in principle, we re told, according to sources. now, they are expected to speak again. president biden told us reporters that they were going to talk at 3 p.m. to what he said is dot the is and cross the ts. he also when asked whether there were any sticking points said, quote, none. that has been the question looming over the white house is can they also get consensus among house democrats, especially on some of these issues like expanding work requirements, some of which we slowly learned about but are still waiting for the text. the bottom line is that there ....