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Theory. all 20 democrats signed a letter, and all 26 republicans refused, which is, wow. and today, one day after president joe biden unveiled his 2020 for budget plan, members of the freedom caucus announced that they will only agree to a budget that flashes 131 billion dollars from current spending levels, and those cuts cannot include defense spending or entitlement programs and no tax increases, which is some real tough stuff. instead the freedom caucus is eyeing cuts to student get relief and climate change and covid funding. and adding requirements to medicaid. this comes as the house we...

Covid bailout, in 2019 before we started the trillion dollars of covid bailouts, if we went back to that level and froze spending for five years, you would actually balance the budget. no cuts, simply a freeze if we go back to pre-covid spending levels. there are ways to do it. the good news is divided government is the best time. when republicans control the place, they're sometimes as bad as the democrats. when democrats control the place, it's terrible. right now mixed government can, the debt ceiling only goes up with republicans doing it, and we are demanding significant spending reform. ...

Balance a budget. taking spending back to before i the covid bailouts in 2019 before we started the trillion dollars of covid bailouts, if wa went back to that level we froze spending for five years he woulo actually balance the budget. no cuts, simply a freeze if we go back to pre-covid spending levels. there are ways to do it. divided government is the best time. they are sometimes as bad as the democrats. right now, mixed government, thu debt ceiling only goes up with republicans doin g it and we are demanding significant spending n threform. >> we are talkinegmeg about than the next segmen...

>> i believe that there is a lot of places that we can find savings. and government is designed to find compromise. the president when he was vice president, he bragged about this. so, no, we're not just going to raise the debt ceiling without finding ways that we can change our behavior. but i'd like to sit down, find common ground and put us on a path to balance so we don't harm the future generation of america and we make ourselves stronger. >> here is the message that president biden says he is sending to mccarthy. >> what is your message to speaker mccarthy? >> show me your budget, i'll s...

U.s. reaching its debt limit past week. >> i think what we have to do is realize that we have a problem. we have a debt problem. we're $31.4 trillion in public debt right now, and all we're saying is should we not make sure that we all recognize how we got there, how we prevent from going further? maria: the republicans say that they would like to go back to 2022 spending levels. you go back to 2022 spending levels, that's a $7 a 5 billion cut in defense spending. are you willing to cut defense, or is that off the table? >> let me make this very clear, i'm committed to supporting ukraine lu th...