republicans have worked with democrats before to increase the debt limit under republican presidents. but, republicans say they didn t run up the discretionary spending like democrats have for the last few years. although the national debt still ballooned by about $7 trillion under former president trump. most of that due to the covid response. now, this week, bret, democratic west virginia senator joe manchin offered to get house and senate committees together to examine trust funds like medicare and social security without getting rid of them instead analyzing them in exchange for a debt ceiling hike. but the white house continues to refuse to negotiate with republicans. to threaten default. to threaten economic catastrophe, nobody, democrat or republican, should do that. no matter how much they believe in their agenda. now, congress does have some time. it s expected to have about until summer to figure this out so we could be in this budget battle for some time.
cooperations who pay no taxes from being audited. house republicans are ready for a fight. it goes both ways they can t ram a bunch of things down our throat like we can t to them. if we have to rock the boat to bring change i m there for it. trace, there s also a budget battle that is looming here on capitol hill. democrats are warning of a potential government shutdown saying it is inevitable thanks to those concessions that speaker mccarthy made to get those votes, to get the gavel. and that includes limiting spending. trace? aishah hasnie live for us on capitol hill. aishah, thank you. we go back now to the right-hand side of the screen bringing you full waiting for the leaders of canada, mexico and the united states to potentially take questions and, as soon as they do that, we will go back in there live and we ll monitor what is being said right now. trace: meantime california is dealing with a relentless string of storms that has caused
and instead add 114 billion to the federal deficit over a ten-year period. it s absolutely absurd. what the republicans are doing, plain and simple, is helping their friends, the multimillionaires, the wealthy corporations that pay no taxes from being audited. we re not going to let it happen. house republicans say, you know what? it goes both ways. and they can kill any senate bills, even those supported by senate republicans. it goes both ways. they can t ram things down our throat. it s time to fight back. of course, we re talking about a budget battle that is also looming, neil. you know as much as i do that democrats are warning of an inevitable shut down in the gop led house because the concessions that speaker mccarthy made to limit spending. neil? neil: i didn t want to ask
moderate democrats who have been less visible to be sure, but you ve got the maggie hassan s, you ve got virginia, nevada, arizona, i mean, there s no enthusiasm for this. but look, manchin cannot be bought off, he cannot be rolled. he told chuck schumer in june of last year, right, the memo, they both signed a memo and schumer ignored it and i thought that was a terrific mistake, and the white house has tried to roll manchin, pelosi has tried to roll manchin. the guy is a strong guy, i think he s exactly right on the issues, and he has a lot of integrity, and incidentally, the voters of west virginia perhaps most importantly are loudly cheering him. his numbers his favorables have practically doubled since the whole budget battle. he s supposed to represent the people of west virginia and the national story and like i say,
and to label. so, i frankly don t know what to make of eric adams that could apply elsewhere. you know, i talked to congresswoman pramila jayapal earlier. she said that what happened last night in ballot boxes is not indicative of what s may happen or is not going to definitely predict what is going to happen in the midterms. how much trouble do you think democrats are in for the midterms? i think they re in a heap of trouble and with no ris disrespect to the congresswoman, i think it is in large measure due to this budget battle that continues in washington. joe biden president biden as i have said repeatedly should have been given the win a long time ago. should have had that $1.2 trillion infrastructure as a notch in his belt. it was passed in the senate with the assistance of 19 republicans, including mitch mcconnell. and yet, the dems just cannot get their house in order. they have got to pass that bill, come back and fight another day for what she would like to see. y