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Going to work together, solve this problem and make america stronger. look, for the last times the democrats have been in power, they have increased discretionary spending by more than 20%. every single year they think you have to spend more. they think it's draconian to pull back money we appropriated for covid. we should save the taxpayers money, borrow less -- >> reporter: you spoke to him last night and negotiators, has he given any on the issue of rolling back domestic spending levels leak you've been asking? >> nothing is agreed to. we've had very good discussions, very professional goin...

That right? >> i firmly believe what we're negotiating right now, a majority of republicans will see that it is a right place to put us on a right path. >> reporter: are work requirements still part of this or are you just talking about spending levels right now? just agreeing on the spending levels, work requirements on social safety net programs. >> we want to take people from poverty to jobs. it's only for people who are able-bodied with no dependents. i don't think it's right that we borrow money from china to pay somebody that has no dependents, able-bodied to sit on a couch. what we find...

The expense of children and grandchildren. now, one of the key sticking points around these negotiations is that issue of spending levels. the white house has proposed freezing spending at the current year's levels while republicans want to revert back making cuts going back to the fiscal year 2022 levels. this is an item that will be discussed today. we also know some of the other agenda items are unspent covid relief funds, permitting reform and all those questions about work requirements for social safety net programs which republicans said would be a red line for them. but bottom line here...

And that is something that he is obviously trying to avoid at this point. house democrats have put together signatures for what is called a discharged addition. it would allow them to buy past of the ship but, the house republican leadership. but only if if they can get maybe three or four more moderate republicans to go with them. and even if that does pass the house, which at this point is it unlikely, you still need to get 60 votes for anything in the senate. you have got 51 democrats, assuming they would all vote for. you have to get nine senate republicans to vote for this too. and so i t...

But perhaps most importantly they agreed to meet one on one tomorrow while the staff will continue meeting later tonight. here's a little more about what mccarthy said about that phone call. >> i believe it was a productive phone call. so at the end of the phone call, we agreed to have congressman graves and patrick mchenry get back together, he's going to ask his team to get back together so we with walk them through what we've been talking about. some of the challenges here, they might not completely understand how we're coming about this. >> reporter: it is a good sign they now have a mecha...