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Talks? >> the next couple weeks, the debt ceiling seems to be getting ever closer, and because federal tax revenue is not as high as we expected, we are going to hit it sooner rather than later. and so i think it's hard to see who has the upper hand, but i think both sides want to avoid a default. that would be horrible for republicans and democrats politically because it's a divided government. they have to hash it out. but both sides are pretty far apart on the actual policy in terms of republicans want to pass a debt ceiling through the senate increase with spending cuts and those work requ...

Understand. one, we have an obligation to raise the debt ceiling because this ends up helping pay for the bills that we already oh, right? so it's necessary for us to raise the debt ceiling. we've done this over many years without having any strings attached to it. so republicans, including mccarthy himself, have agreed to it during the trump presidency, they have done so the last two years with the biden administration, so when the president says we are not negotiating on this, he has a right to do that. the second thing that people need to understand, is that when you say this is a messaging...

Shouldn't you talk about doing something else? howard: yeah. i think government spending is out of control, but a lot of people don't understand we've already spent the money, borrowed this money, and the question is do you go back. and also mccarthy as many on the left point out voted three times for an increase in the debt limit under donald trump. now biden pounced on cutting food stamps and other programs. it got big media play. but with a democratic senate and a democratic white house, is this more of a messaging bill for kevin mccarthy because if he can pass something, isn't it likely to...

President biden. obviously not president trump, but he's wondering what biden's thoughts are getting ahead of himself. he's got to get this bill. this is this is something that's basically a messaging bill that they're going to need so much political capital to put into its doha in the senate. it's just it is it. this needs to get done with, you know, the two houses of congress and the white house, but at this point, it's going to be stuck in one and putting all of this all of these cuts and on this wish list in the house republican proposal. just gets everyone closer to x day when whenever it...

Want in their feels, right. this isn't going anywhere and they're going to spend political capital within their conference haggling over what's essentially a messaging bill and the effect of this at the end of the day. it's just going to get congress. closer to the brink closer to the day x whenever that may be, and, um, you know, i have a feeling we're all gonna be there in the as the minutes ticked down, because that's that's how they that's how they work. the immediate question is. can mccarthy get 2 to 18? you can only afford to lose four and we saw the democrats were messy and a lot of th...