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Weekend is scheduled to speak with speaker mccarthy by phone later this evening. you mentioned there were negotiating teams late last night, back at it this morning only to emerge around midday. we saw speaker mccarthy and he said they were taking a chipotle break. they returned with chips and queso for the press and went back to the closed-door session. they say progress is being made and republican negotiators say they are getting closer on the big stuff. but there are still some sticking points on. so smaller more specific issues, including a gop ask for work requirements to be attached to ...

Come to a budget agreement, it puts in for the next six years it will be 99%, so that's a 1% cut on our annual budget, and having a republican house and a democratic senate, it's obviously a good idea if the two houses can't come to an agreement on things. will: congressman, i'd love to get your reaction to to some of the other republican congressmen who have expressed some disappointment this this deal over the debt ceiling, whether or not that's ken buck, dan bishop, senator mike lee. there's a sense that it was too little in a position of strength. republicans sitting in a position of stren...

And introduces work requirements for certain welfare programs. joey: we're going to bring in now congressman greg steube to react to this breaking news. congressman, good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. well, there's a lot of good stuff in there. it limits top-line federal spending by 1% on annual growth for the next six years, it puts those work requirements in, it pulls the covid funds back that haven't been used. it also puts a pay-go requirement in for the white house. if they're going to spend money, and it limits that to $100 million, i believe. they have to the find the ...

Resistant to new work requirements for some welfare programs saying the latest g.o.p. ovaritis cuts snap benefits beyond the house-passed bill and harsher than what trump tried to do. it's not being echoed by house democratic leadership that they're making a good effort. >> speaking mccarthy is beholding to the most extreme members of his conference. >> they want to end social security as we know it. >> the white house is not disavowing what's being said. >> i believe he is the leader of the democratic caucus on the house so i would presume that's a yes. >> it seems like there is a bit of divi...

Fox's alexandria hoff live in d.c. with the latest. hi, alex. >> reporter: yeah. 10 a.m. local time in japan, so much earlier today, president biden did receive an update from his negotiating team here in washington. we don't know exactly what that was, but the white house did come out with a statement soon after saying that the president essentially feels that republicans have turned away from a good faith promise to negotiate and are holding the economy hostage. communications director ben lebolt writing, quote: any serious budget negotiation must include discussion of both spending and reve...