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Tightening which actually is still going to be about level funding. after those two years, you're talking about soft targets. an incredible political win for joe biden. more importantly, a fiscal win for the nation. >> tia, talk to us about the details here. we have been talking around what was the red line for so many progressives in the democratic party. that was a work requirement, especially for those on food stamps. give us the details of what was negotiated here when it comes to work requirements and other social programs the progressive caucus was concerned about. >> yes. so republicans...

The vast majority of people enrolled in social safety net programs eligible to work do indeed work.

But where the problem may be with democrats is, if they see a lot of republican defections, democrats are going to start asking their leadership why should we be the ones to bail out speaker mccarthy when we don't really like a lot of provisions that he insisted on putting in this bill. i think that's the concern. i think democrats are inclined to help president biden, no, they don't like some of the provisions, particularly the work requirement for people on food assistance or temporary assistance for families, those changes, but it doesn't go as far as the republicans had hoped. so it does g...

Where that work requirement applies. right now, if you're in your early 50s, for example, you're not required to meet that 20 hours per week work requirement. this lists that maximum age up to 54, 55. so now you, in theory, might be if you're 52, 53, 54, be required to work 20 hours a week if you're an able bodied childless adult. what the white house is saying to offset that is, yes, we did increase that maximum age for the work requirement. we know progressives don't want that. they did not want that. but we also are expanding the definition of veterans and definition of the disabled to get ...

To understand. agreement in principle means that people in the room agree to this, the negotiators, members of the white house, steve ruch, eddie the council of the president, and shalanda young who feel [inaudible] obviously the president and kevin mccarthy themselves, speaker mccarthy agreed, and negotiators on the republican side. after a text of this bill is available, then comes the work of twisting arms and whipping -- the white house is gonna have to whip votes, working with dam leadership to ensure that all of the democrats are on board. frankly, kevin mccarthy, speaker mccarthy, is go...