st the far enough away that between here and washington, d.c. they stop to refuel in alaska. and so it s going to be a while until he gets back with home. a big part of the reason they came to hiroshima, the leader of the world s seven is largest economies, is to figure out what to do about a rising china, especially in this region. and the president got a question about chinese military actions, particularly the lack of contact there has been between general lloyd austin and his counterpart now that a hotline has been down, and the president had a fascinating answer where he explained why he thinks that things are so cool wean the u.s. and they that right now. we should have an open9 hotline. at the bali conference, that s what president xi and i agreed we were going to do and be with on k. and hen this silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of spying equipment was flying over the united states, and it got shot down and everything changed. in terms of talki
you just go back, what, five months, and democrats passed the inflation reduction act, massive spending, $5 trillion in spending over the last two the years of the presidency, then they passed the big omnibus bill which that some is republican support in the senate. but the massive spending, and joe biden doesn t want to curtail anything in the senate. kevin mccarthy and the republicans, i m surprised they got all the votes for it, but they want to go back to 2022 spending levels, which are really high. and then they want to say, listen, we re going to help people out who are going through a hard time, but you ve also got to work. they want work requirements for medicaid, for food stamps, and that s too much for joe biden. pete: sure. it s imminently reasonable stuff. concern eminently reasonable. does it matter in the negotiations that the republicans have actually passed something? they passed raising the debt ceiling and, you know, the senate hasn t done that that, and the white hou