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Of older workers, the president pushed hard for expanding that snap program, food benefit program so that people who are homeless or who are veterans actually have fewer restrictions on their ability to claim those benefits. on net, those two changes actually mean that more people will get access to those benefits. yes this is a compromise. it has elements that we wouldn t put in there. the president pushed hard to have tax increases included on this. we don t think it s just a spending issue we have. republicans rejected those. at the same time we were able to protect key priorities of the democratic party. on a very, very busy day, i really appreciate you coming over to take some time to talk to us. thank you. thank you. and coming off two days of barn storming through iowa, ron desantis today is in new hampshire, and he got a little testy. the florida governor snapped this morning when a reporter questioned his willingness to field voters questions. governor, how come you r ....
We begin tonight with breaking news straight from capitol hill. we are getting word that the white house and house republicans are getting closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. one week before the u.s. runs out of money. what do we know right now about where the deal stands between kevin mccarthy, house republicans and the white house? i think we should caveat by saying nothing has been agreed upon yet. nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen progress over the last 12 hours, particularly on the spending issue. that s been something that has been really bedevilling the talks. they started floating the idea of a potential compromise that both sides could try to claim as essentially a win. one of the things they are discussing is raising the debt ceiling for two years, which would be longer than what house republicans had proposed in their debt ceiling plan in the house. then instituting spending caps for two years. caps on federal spending level ....
abby, i think we should caveat by saying nothing that we have nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen some progress over the last few 12 hours, particularly on the spending issue. that is as something that has been really bedeviling the talks. but they started at least floating the idea of a potential compromise that both sides could try to claim as a win. one of the things they are discussing is raising the debt ceiling for two years, which would be longer than what wrote republicans have been proposing in their debt ceiling plan, and then instituting spending caps for two years. so caps on federal spending levels. they have not agreed on those numbers for the spending caps, but one of the emerging compromises here is the idea that they would spare pentagon funding. so, it would spare specific domestic programs so that democrats can say, we actually didn t cut certain things. other programs would see some cuts, which republicans couldn t claim as ....
But this is real flash point. there are other issues they ve still not resolved the spending issue. they re closing in on it but still tens of billions of dollars apart. very complicated but trying to put some mechanism in to try and cap federal spending the next two years and make sure congress can stick to that agreement because that s what s the problem. congress makes a deal here but then blows it up down the road. so there s still there s still a lot of moving parts, but they hope they really need to get a deal today if they re going to start voting on this next week in the house and senate. sounds like you might be getting updates there with the pinging. so let s talk about the time line. june 1st is the deadline and thursday, a week away. complicated pieces to remain. congress, they re congress, so they re going to make things coughlicate. so you think it has to get done today? and if so what are the chances it does? i still think momentum is on ....