don t get 100% of what they want. and so that s why it s such a dangerous situation for the country and with respect to governance right now. ma that s why i want to emphasize that it s important for the speaker to step up. i just introduced today the preventing government shutdown act that come december we re not left in the lurch once again. but as you know, this is a chaotic situation. you know, we just got word that a budget committee session that we had scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed till later in the day. they re going to have a caucus meeting to figure out what the next step is. i saw the draft legislation you laid out that has a plan b. there wouldn t be a shutdown and a dicing of sequester cut, which is interesting. thanks for talking to us tonight. thank you. good to be with you. and coming up, why donald
preventing government shutdown act that come december we re not left in the lurch once again. but as you know, this is a chaotic situation. you know, we just got word that a budget committee session that we had scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed till later in the day. they re going to have a caucus meeting to figure out what the next step is. i saw the draft legislation you laid out that has a plan b. there wouldn t be a shutdown and a dicing of sequester cut, which is interesting. thanks for talking to us tonight. thank you. good to be with you. and coming up, why donald trump think he s actually responsible for mccarthy dropping out of the race for speaker of the house.
help create demand. he is a keynesian. he has probably said to himself, i don t believe in cutting debt. i don t believe in trying to cut the deficit this current year in the current situation of recovery. i don t think republicans want to do it either. so why am i pretending anymore that i believe in debt reduction and i believe that they might go along with it. so ending the pretense, along with what joy said and i said before, it looks like he is now saying okay, you know what? i m a progressive. and i basically think we could use a little more stimulus. we re going to get through a little more spending. and by the way, i m not touching social security. no more chained cpi or that stuff. your thoughts. he is a progressive but he s also a realist. and the realistic view of the government finance and the economy has changed. that s to say the economy has bounced back better than people thought it would at a time of simpson-bowles. the deficit is looking a whole lot better because of
debt. he thinks the debt is coming down quite nicely, thank you. he believes the government can help create demand. he is a keynesian. he has probably said to himself, i don t believe in cutting debt. in the current situation of recovery. i don t think republicans want to do it either. so why am i pretending anymore that i believe in debt reduction and i believe that they might go along with it. so ending the pretense, along with what joy said and i said before, it looks like he is now saying okay, you know what? i m a progressive. and i basically think we could use a little more stimulus. we re going to get through a little more spending. and by the way, i m not touching social security. no more chained cpi or that stuff. your thoughts. shea progressive, but he is also a realist. and the realistic view of the government finance and the economy has changed. that s to say the economy has bounced back better than people thought it would at a time of simpson/bowles. the deficit is looki
literally, it s like are we going to give tax cuts to big oil and to these companies, or can we just make sure that our vets are taken care of and don t have to put in more money on their pensions? that s right, karen. if you look at the budget deal that was agreed upon last week, these conservative outside groups are angry. but they should be pretty happy about this. there are slight rollback in the sequester cut in 2014. then they all re-emerge in 2015. these are severe cuts to head start, a program that helps homeless children. these are severe cuts to medical research nih funding. there s a lot that conservatives who want to drown government in a bathtub, they should be celebrating. but at the same time, you know, they re still kind of throwing their hands up and demanding more primary challenges. all right. it will be, i guess, fun to watch. maybe that s not quite the best way to put it. but we ll be watching. thank you. lee fang and raul reyes and merry christmas, guys. whe