proud about having. they d rather be talking about the economy. but the people who left behind in the white house and the turnover in the campaign, the people who are still there are true believers and they believe the president has the best political instincts and they re ready to follow him into this battle, even though he says things that makes a number of people uncomfortable. but if you talk to people who work at the white house and on the campaign, they are fully on board with attacking these minority congress women, making them the face of the democratic party and making a campaign that s built around attacking them, despite the fact that there are a number of people who see president trump s attacks as racist and they believe that the president is turning off suburb women and all kinds of voters he could ultimately get.
morning with congress as they try to reach a budget agreement before they go on break. what do you know about that? the administration is trying to reach a joint deal with congress, specifically democrats in the house, that would address the need to lift the debt ceiling and a two-year budget deal that could avoid an ugly budget fight until after the 2020 election. that s a really sweeping deal for the treasury secretary to be pursuing. on thursday the white house sent over a menu of spending cuts, about $575 billion worth as they seek to offset some of the spending increases that is expected to be in this deal. but sources do say that both sides are nearing some kind of compromise. that has to get done quickly though, martin, because soon congress will recess for the
they re on board with following the president s political instincts on this. melanie, you cover congress. what s the bleedover impact for the races in the house and sena senate? there is a lot of concern of how this is going to impact them in 2020. a lot of these mod ralts and minorities left the party in 2018 and republicans are so concerned, in fact, that i talked to multiple members of glop leadership, who are normally staunch allies to the president. i think their worry is that this is going to become the campaign mantra, that this is going to defiend the party. as we ve mentioned, they would much rather focus on the progressive policies of these women, focus on things like the green new deal, medicare for all. they do not want to engage in these ugly, personal.
i don t know if it s good or bad politically, i don t care. but when people are speaking so badly and call our country garbage, think of that, it s worse than deplorable. i don t care about politics, i don t care if it s good or bad about politics. we should note that none of of the congress women under fire have actually referred to america or americans as garbage, but nonetheless trump has continued to try to paint them as anti-american and highlighted their advocacy for socialist-type policies. this could be an emerging seen as he gears up for his reelection race and that s elevating the most progressive members and most progress of iv ideas and taint the entire diverse democratic party with them. secretary mnuchin spoke this