that they will keep the grain supplies going. that is what president putin was saying, not to worry, russia is a bigger exporter and we ll step into the breach. also offering to provide it free of charge. that again points to the callousness of this. russia looking to make more money off its own exports because it will be able to sell while ukraine can t. and so all of that is part of the overall picture. clare, thank you. fitch has down graded the u.s. credit rating citing the country s growing debt and expected fiscal decline. this is despite an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a u.s. government default. janet yellen says she disagrees with the town grade which is arbitrary and based on outdated data she says. a credit downgrade in 2011 pushed stocks sharply lower. and general motors is
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on in the peanut gallery throwing things at the people on the stage. what was going to the happen here was there was going to have to be some deal to avoid default. nobody wanted u.s. to get a credit downgrade or anything like that. the question is what does that deal look like, and i think there are some real policy wins that mccarthy got here. coming fiscal year s 1% growth in non-defense spending compared to the 5-6% inflation that we re in, changes to the federal permitting, clawing back some of that irs money. so i think his approach is do you pocket hose victories and then have the negotiation on appropriations or the farm bill and try to get something else cone here. and the question i would have for those dissenters is what s your alternative? did you want mccarthy to hold out for more paul: that s what i think they wanted, they wanted him to the run right up to the deadline. sure. to my mind, that makes it more likely what you get in the end is you get a day or hours away