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Believe that date but it doesn't matter if they believe it, because the treasury says that and that's the sole decider. republicans say they need spending cuts and other reforms along the debt ceiling lift, and the democrats want the republicans to lift the ceiling and it's not compatible. a deal is possible and it's not going to change the world, but republicans and democrats both feel according to conversations i have had last night and this morning, that if they can get some sort of deal to set spending levels, maybe do permitting reform, and that would be the energy reforms, and it could u...

Card bills. even if you have to have a conversation in the kitchen table about should we be spending less. the president says that's how normal people do. but woor not in a normal washington with house republicans at large but a smaller group within saying, no, we're not going to blink here. >> and when there has been unified control of washington, it's barely taking them raising a finger to raise the debt ceiling. republicans are going to use the leverage. they realize this is their opportunity to get what they have been demanding in terms of spending cuts. they want some energy reform. but t...

Not this,, limit save grow act what you call it act. >> the president put out his budget, it was late which means they put out there -- the questions, will they do it at all? the house budget committee says it is going to put out a budget and it will be bigger and more comprehensive than what they have just put out which is just their offer or their deal. the senate budget committee apparently is not planning to put a budget out at all. and honestly, the deadline for the budgets from congress is april 15th, they should have had it done, both of them. it's not a responsibility to get done. bett...

Wing of his party. wanting major cuts in order to avoid defaulting. it doesn't seem like democrats are on board with that it doesn't seem that the president on board with that either. where did this go? >> first of all we need to de-link. i'm glad the president saying it. he is not gonna negotiate on paying our bills. he won't negotiate on the budget. i serve on the budget committee and the appropriations committee. we will negotiate a budget. our spending levels for what we intend are our priorities in terms of spending federal tax dollars. when you pay your bills you don't negotiate about pa...

Department is at $31.7 trillion with interest alone on that debt of more than half a trillion. under this proposal from house republicans, the national debt ceiling would be raised by $1.5 trillion while spending levels would be rolled back to 2022 levels. the bill would also impose a 1% cap on futuren spending, claw back unused covid-19 money, cancel irs funding for new staff and repeal green ax the credits from the inflation reduction act. president biden did not have a serious response to the plan. instead the, he attacked what he called maga republicans saying that any spending cuts attach...