negotiations and in your time in washington. on the hill before and being at the white house. the white house repeatedly said that it would not negotiate on the debt ceiling but that is exactly what ended up happening. president biden drew a red line and said that he won t do it and he came to the table any way. how is it going to go the next time president biden draws a red line and is the other side going to look at him and say you don t really mean it. i remind everybody watching, that we have to fund the government. that comes october 1st. so we re dealing how much we spend in this country today or tomorrow. we decided to have that conversation now with republicans and i think it is as about as good of a deal as we would have had in five days. but he did say he would not negotiate on the debt ceiling. we did say there was a time and place to do those budget
praise both sides involved in the budget talks and the compromise they reached. i want to commend speaker mccarthy. you know, he and i and our teams, we were able to get along and get things done, we were straightforward with one another, completely honest with one another, respectful with one another. both sides operated in good faith. both sides kept their word, and i also want to commend other congressional leaders, house minority leader jeffries, senate majority leader schumer, senate minority leader mcconnell. they acted responsibly and put the good of the country ahead of politics. in a moment, david axelrod, who witnessed many important moments in the obama/biden white house but first more on the speech itself and what the white house hoped to achieve from cnn s phil mattingly. what else did the president say tonight? reporter: anderson, the focus of the president s reports
legislation to avert a government default, president biden didn t hide who he is or what he believes, nor did he shy away from criticizing a number of republican priorities. that said, he was also quick to praise both sides involving the budget talks and the compromise they reached. i want to commend speaker mccarthy. you know, he and i and our teams, we were able to get along and get things done, were straightforward with one another, completely honest with one another, and respectful with one another. both sides operated in good faith. both sides kept their word. and i want to commend other congressional leaders. house minority leader jeffreys, senate majority leader schumer, senate minority leader mcconnell. they acted responsibly and put the good of the country ahead of politics. in a moment, david axelrod, who witnessed many important moments in the obama/biden white house reflects. phil mattingly joins us now.
republicans and negotiating this deal, and that there should have been more communication with congressional democrats. do you share that opinion, and if so, how are you and your colleagues going to ensure that the same time endemic doesn t unfold in the budget talks? yeah. so the budget talks, i have no idea of where that is going to end, because of the budget process is one of the most complicated if not the most complicated thing that we do in congress. i will point out that our ranking member on appropriations voted against this. and she spoke out a vigorously about how this was tying our hands. i also want the american people to understand that the number, the bottom line number was kept the same of what we had in 23. but, within that number, we saw a defense spending be increased. if the number is the same and defense went up, what did that mean? non defenses going down. when we look at non-defense, these are the things that affect your everyday life.
Louisiana legislators have less than a week to pass a balanced budget and with the tense fight over if they should bust the constitutional spending cap, the Senate has finally revealed their plan Saturday afternoon.