been talk about recession for months. on cnbc or you hear about is people predicting recessions. if the economy is not in recession. a lot of people have been left behind. the last thing we need is to blow that all up with a default that would throw markets into turmoil and would cost, experts say, at least 1 million jobs the first two weeks of the default. so sparing those people their jobs, spring economy, that s good for the country as a whole. there s an interesting sort of color on this about the approach. one, the mitch mcconnell advice to shrink the room, it should basically just be biden mccarthy. and also the white house officials sought to downplay what they privately considered to be a substantial victory. headlines from politico just don t boast how biden world sought to ace the debt ceiling standoff. it is interesting to me that this president, there are a lot of times where people urge this
president to use the bully pulpit, and he doesn t use it in a way that strikes me as a strategic choice whether it s the correct or not, what do you think? i think there is a difference between not using the bully pulpit and gloating about a deal. the president did, i think, be quite forcefully about the need if you are serious about reducing the debt we need to really work on revenues. and he talked about that repeatedly in the spring and early summer of this year about his plans to repeal some of the trump tax cuts for the richest people in the country. a plan to have attacks on billionaires. the republicans made it very clear, they were not going to go for any taxes. they re going to protect billionaires at all costs. he couldn t get that done at any kind of negotiation with house republicans. i think he was forceful on that but he just wouldn t go there just like the president wouldn t. mccarthy said the president wouldn t cut social security, wouldn t cut medicare, wouldn t cut
price of gas is down more than $1 from a year ago. the economy is gaining traction, we are seeing growth, there s been talk about recession for months. on cnbc or you hear about is people predicting recessions. if the economy is not in recession. a lot of people have been left behind. the last thing we need is to blow that all up with a default that would throw markets into turmoil and would cost, experts say, at least 1 million jobs the first two weeks of the default. so sparing those people their jobs, spring economy, that s good for the country as a whole. there s an interesting sort of color on this about the approach. one, the mitch mcconnell advice to shrink the room, it should basically just be biden mccarthy. and also the white house officials sought to downplay what they privately considered to be a substantial victory. headlines from politico just don t boast how biden world sought to ace the debt ceiling standoff.
it is interesting to me that this president, there are a lot of times where people urge this president to use the bully pulpit, and he doesn t use it in a way that strikes me as a strategic choice whether it s the correct or not, what do you think? i think there is a difference between not using the bully pulpit and gloating about a deal. the president did, i think, be quite forcefully about the need if you are serious about reducing the debt we need to really work on revenues. and he talked about that repeatedly in the spring and early summer of this year about his plans to repeal some of the trump tax cuts for the richest people in the country. a plan to have attacks on billionaires. the republicans made it very clear, they were not going to go for any taxes. they re going to protect billionaires at all costs. he couldn t get that done at any kind of negotiation with house republicans. i think he was forceful on that but he just wouldn t go there just like the president wouldn t. m