because the progress happens in small steps, what it s happening. in palpable ways. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, they address from the white house, i thought what was interesting about it was it s quiet, normalcy. the idea that there are as a lack of superlatives, there s punditry all over the place. twitter is not, i mean it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states given important address and it s okay. and it said nice things about republicans, and nobody said their hair on fire. you pointed out that even in the obama days, it would ve been hard pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. and that s what joe biden did tonight. it was the normalcy that the part of amazing me today. it was paid by the, and welcoming refreshing change for a lot of people. yes, have a good night, see you next week. you two ali! think about this, do you remember where you are the first time you heard about
about little changes, not that little, that do happen. they are smart but they all meaningful. they re meaningful. i think that s why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it s happening. in palpable ways. it s happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn t punditry all over the place. twitter is not it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states gives an important address. first of all. and it s okay. and said nice things about republicans and nobody set their hair on fire. that s the way it has to work. you pointed out, even in the obama days, it would ve been hard-pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. yes. that s what joe biden did tonight. the normalcy was the part that amazed me
pentagon funding. ignited by republicans who said the debt limit package severely underfunded the military. by evening, senate officials and senator lindsey graham, the south carolina republican, who had been a chief critic of the pentagon spending levels, said the pledge from the leadership was sufficient to reassure him and other credits to back the bill. clearing the way for final votes. and quote. the united states will avert an unprecedented default, one that would ve signaled to the world that the united states is an unreliable custodian of its finances. that would have that was estimated to possibly have caused the loss of more than 8 million jobs. that was the chaos caucus future. averted. i wish the president didn t need to summon all of our national fortitude, to stop a crazy faction from setting the economy on fire. but for tonight, we can be grateful that he did, and that it worked. the dow jones industrial average had its best day since november 30th 2022. jumping 701 po
11th attacks, george w. bush addressed the nation from the oval office. that s the sort of thing that causes the president to do that. president biden s decision, to use his first address to the nation from behind the resolute desk, demonstrates just how close we actually were to economic catastrophe. to a crisis, a disaster, what could be considered an attack on america s economy. the american people s financial well-being. possibly the worlds. now fortunately, the chaos caucus members that would ve devastated america s economy lost this round. they were all voted by a combination of democrats and some members of their own party, including the house republican leadership. last night, during this hour, the senate passed the debt limit bill on a 63 to 36 vote. sending the president sending the bill to president biden s desk. the senate passed the bill a little over 24 hours after the house of representatives advanced its version of the bill. the new york times reports, quote, the sena