tonight. good evening, peter. mike, on this memorial day, president biden is expressing confidence that there won t be a debt default while also trying to express condolences to the families of fallen american service members. god bless all those who gave their lives so our nation might live. present arms. peter: hours after solemn wreath laying at arlington national cemetery. i never say i m confident with what the congress are going to do. i feel very good about it. headlines of the deal suspending the debt limit until 2025 and limiting federal spending. what this will do is it increases defense and increases veterans. if you take nondefense with veterans out it, goes bloat level of 2022. congressman chip roy doesn t like the deal and roy sits on the rules committee where the bill goes next. he tweets a reminder that during speaker negotiations to build the collision that it was explicit both that nothing would pass rules committee without at least 7 g.o.p.
gillian: first possible relief over the debt threat. the house is going to vote tonight imminently on the debt extension deal to avoid a historic default on federal obligations. a lot of staunch conservatives are against this agreement which means democrats will definitely be needed to get the measure across the finish line. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight. hi, chad. good evening, gillian. the vote comes some time after 8:00 tonight. expect broad bipartisan support. lots of democrats will vote yes. albeit with reluctance. when trump was president, they approved every extension of the debt relief and, yet, when biden s here, no. this is extortion. but we have to deal with it, it s for the benefit of our country. and the world s economy and i will vote yes. some conservatives berated house speaker kevin mccarthy for negotiating the deal. graves negotiated the for the g.o.p. is he tired of the right torching the deal and the spe
bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. new evidence that iran is helping houthi militants disrupt traffic on the red sea. taxpayers spent money on migrant housing. why is some of it not being used? we check in with weather and traffic on one of the busiest holiday travel days of the year. mike: but, first, breaking tonight, a major decision from the u.s. supreme court as justices refuse to consider former president trump s request for immunity from prosecution. the case will instead go to an appeals court early next month. this is considered a victory for the former president and setback for special counsel jack smith it. could have huge ramifications is the coming election year. senior national correspondent rich edson at the white house tonight has details. good evening, rich. good evening, mike. an election already with significant uncertainty just had more injected into it this afternoon. the supreme court s refusal to soon
lake, i was 100 percent with. emily: yes! yes! jesse: it was a bong hit. bret: thank you, jesse. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight. we have new polling on the republican presidential race in iowa showing former president donald trump making it a one horse race with a growing lead on the competition. in iowa, with just three and a half weeks to go before the caucuses, a fox business survey finds former president trump 34 points ahead of his nearest competitor. and there is substantial fallout this evening in iowa and elsewhere for the breaking news story we brought you last night. the ruling by colorado state supreme court that the former president is not qualified to be on that state s ballot because the court labels him an insurrectionist. a term pine used today as well. we have fox team coverage. david spunt is at the white house. president biden defines the polls talking up bidenomics and calling out predecessor reacting to that colorado ruling. we begin
the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. breaking news tonight, a major win for donald trump. the supreme court smacking down special counsel jack smith and declining to issue an expedited ruling on whether or not the former president has immunity in his 2020 election interference case. fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pier gram iss here with all the details. chad? good evening. this is a blow to special counsel jack smith. he asked the supreme court to accelerate whether the former president was immune from prosecution for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election. the court denied smith s request. this slows down smith s prosecution of mr. trump. it could mean there is no clarity on smith s probe until well into 2024. the federal trial was scheduled to start march 4th. this could mean the trial comes amid the political conventions. or, down the homestretch of the presidential election. team trump may want to drag this out. here s wh