aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
live to talk about why she s trying to stop them. object to the k part, this is the sunday show. it s americas recurring nightmare. deadly mass shootings that leave community after community in mourning. today, that community is allen texas, for a lone gunman opened fire at a crowded mall on a saturday afternoon, killing at least eight people, and injuring at least seven before police officers killed him. according to the gun violence archive, so far this calendar year there have been 109 mass shootings. this is defined as the shooting of at least four people. as of now, we don t know the identity, or the motive of the suspect. the authorities believe the shooter acted alone. that s of little comfort to those who ran for their lives as carnage erupted around them. as soon as they knocked on the doors, i heard pow, pow, pow. everyone ran. we heard, run, run, run. we thought it had to be he walks up, he seen the pillars in front of our store get hit by rounds. we ra
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are conflating a debate going on versus the looming debt ceiling crisis. what they should be debating are the parameters speaker mccarthy and the house republicans just passed. they are not talking about clawing back $60 billion of unspent covid dollars, they are not talking about work requirements as part of welfare reform. why, because that s the truth. and that s what s contained in that bill that the house just passed. sandra: ok, so president biden during these hours yesterday made the claim that there will be 8 million job losses as a result of the republicans plan here. put up the gop debt ceiling proposal so people know exactly what where things stand heading into this. the republicans want to cap the federal agency s budget growth at 1% for the next decade, ok. new work requirements for welfare republicans are pitching, rolling back new irs funding, blocking student loan
colleague laid out a seven-step scenario that could precipitate what one former federal reserve official described her as quote, financial armageddon. it does not have to be this way. if both sides take yes for an answer. yes will raise the debt ceiling. yes will rein in spending. part of the problem here is that speaker mccarthy s legislation with his three trillion dollars in savings wrought by locking in federal agency funding it fiscal year 2022 levels and future budget growth 1% of the next decade, in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, is also masquerading or trying to masquerade as a budget, which it isn t. that easy path to avoiding financial armageddon must be a twin track process. track one, agreed to raise the debt ceiling without condition. track to, immediately begin negotiations over the 2024 budget which the president told stephanie ruhle that he is