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Because it got so close to the edge. and i think what i heard from them was that they have confidence in our economy, much as the business people i talked to have confidence in our economy. i think what we need to do here in washington is to go from the coming together on wednesday night where we saw a strong bipartisan majority do the right thing and make progress from there, show that we can work together. >> so one more economic question. a lot of republicans are calling about the fact that whatever drama was here that the sequester cuts have been locked in place, these automatic spending c...

Because it got so close to the edge. and i think what i heard from them was that they have confidence in our economy, much as the business people i talked to have confidence in our economy. i think what we need to do here in washington is to go from the coming together on wednesday night where we saw a strong bipartisan majority do the right thing and make progress from there, show that we can work together. >> so one more economic question. a lot of republicans are calling about the fact that whatever drama was here that the sequester cuts have been locked in place, these automatic spending c...

Will the sequester cuts that cut it down to 967, we'll fund for you that this year. do you think the members in the house and the senate are ready to forego that over this battle of obama care and shut down the government? >> i think they will. it's playing out entirely on their terms in their vocabulary. they're delighted to avoid another frontal charge against the entrenched forces of obama care. >> we'll have to leave it there to be seen. thank you, panel. see you next week. remember, our discussion continues every sunday on panel plus. you can find it on our website, foxnewssunday.com and ...

Writing a piece on this and that so that the republicans faced a loss with regards to the government shutdown, very unpopular, but fiscally, they're winning the fight. they're keeping washington to spending levels that the democrats really don't want. so in the long-term, even if nothing comes out of this budget committee, it is going to be a win for the republicans. >> that's the part that i want to sort of understand here, so -- we had the whole dispute over the shutdown and the default and some coverage of the fact that democrats were saying you know, what was lost in this is democrats were...

>> the sequester cuts. >> and the whole deal. bts it's about a 3% of gdp tightening now over so the u.s. looks good to me. i'm quite optimistic about the u.s. in the next year or so. >> i might not be quite as bullish as that but i think the u.s. has the potential to accelerate but i worry we've been here again and again and each time things have been messed up and we haven't got beyond this 2% growth. the answer to the question as always will depend on washington. it depends on what they do early next year. if we continue this serial uncertainty, the recovery will not be as strong as it could...