billions of dollars you can burn a lot of it to turns out. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i odmean, listen, between th two of us, buddy, one of us tweets a lot less than the other person. i like to tweet. i m a poster to my veins. but t if i may i think i have a little more self-awareness than elon musk. a little bit. okay, okay. it sy, cross talk so we can t really get into it. oh, i can t believe you re not agreeing. i support the self-awareness and certainly the conversation. thank you as always. and thank you for joining us this evening. so summer plans they re often up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this date in pen june 1test. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an importantan day, and, m, it is really coming up, really around the corner. there was some hope the debt ceiling deadline couldth be pusd off through financial hocus-pocus, but no s
i don t think so. look, we did think it was an encouraging i meeting today. mcconnell said after the meeting thathe default was not an optio. speaker mccarthy came close to that at the microphones today, so the leaders seemed to be heading in the same direction default is not an option, and it would cost the economy and american workers too much. there s some distance about budget agreements, there s no question about that. and republicans as you poirchted out in your opening segment have introduced a budget that would cut essential and so there s significant distance, still, between the budgets but what we re looking for at this stage we ve got to get default taken off the table, and then, look, the president recognizes it s a
days for congress to actually get something done on this. i know the white house has been firm in its stance we cannot the u.s. economy cannot default. is kevin mccarthy signaling that he too believes the u.s. economy cannot default? and if not, how doia get him to do that in the next five or six working days in. we think this was a protective meeting today that headed towards a recognition for it leaders default is simply not an option, and now negotiations on the hill around a budget framework have been accelerated. the president introduced his budget on march 9th i remember, so we brought9t that to the tab. the republicans passed theirs in late april, and so we have had a window toha get this budget negotiation off the ground. the negotiators the president sent to the hill, they started those conversations this evening. they re happening in earnest. i think there s more working days in a week that typical right now because we need to gen this done because of the catastrophic imp