The Senate's larding up of $14 billion to the president's Iraq and Gulf Coast supplemental spending request is yet more evidence our lawmakers have surrendered any pretense of spending restraint.
table. default off the table. you did not listen either, so why should i answer the question? i would cut the deficit by $160 billion. billion dollars on the medicare deal. sean: unfortunately biden and his friends want a free pass. said republicans are standing firm at least 43% of them have signed onto a letter refusing to vote for a debt ceiling increase without serious planning and budget reform. next guest also says he would not support the so-called clean debt ceiling increase unless it has fiscal responsibility measures. louisiana senator john kennedy is with us right now. so we have 97 days to meet with mccarthy. 97 days to negotiate. pijnaker the house raises the debt ceiling. a return expanding to 2022 levels. they reduce baseline budgeting to only a 1% increase annually to keep the budget in line. they also have provisions in
vermont senator bernie sanders unveiling the new legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 over five years. larry kudlow with i think his quick reaction to that? nothing is going to happen. nothing, i mean to his credit, senator sanders have been saying it for years. look, only one major piece of legislation that is on the table right now and that is the debt ceiling and budget reform that speaker mccarthy is doing. that is it. and you ve got i think may 4th, did you say that s today, may 4th, so you ve got somewhere between 4 and 6 weeks to get that done. and if you don t get it done, two things. we will always pay off the debt, revenues do come in. but there will have to be very difficult strict prioritization of revenues throughout the