to your point, yes, let s put the politics aside but not pretend there s only one person involved in the gamesmanship. somehow in washington, d.c. they act like negotiating is a dirty word. compromise and negotiation are swear words in d.c. i agree with joe on this, it does take two to tango. i was on capitol hill for a number of debt ceiling fights and we have known this roughly june deadline since the first quarter. back in march i believe is when janet yellen said we should expect that. in the past we ve done super committees, appropriators to hash out a deal and spend months ahead of the deadline to try and do it. this feels like waiting until the 11th hour and trying to extract something. i will note cnn has polling today that says 60% of americans support raising the debt ceiling but with spending cuts. the problem is you cannot find a uniting front within congress of both where democrats and republicans want to cut from. well, look, is it time to
no waste, fraud or abuse in government. well, there s clearly areas where we can do reforms that are needed to the point that the eight times that reforms have been done, tied to a raising of the debt ceiling, joe biden was in congress or the vice president of the united states, he s been for six of the eight. so it is time for joe biden to end in debt ceiling madness. it s very much time martha: okay. very interesting. this is one of the more interesting debt ceiling fights that we ve had. the reason for that is because kevin mccarthy, who now leads a republican majority house of representatives has said that he will not raise the debt ceiling this time without some spending cuts. about a 20% cut in nondefense spending. as john thune pointed out, for the course of our history, 70% of the time that we ve raised
president s age. i think people should judge a president on their performance and their record. not on their age. the present as a great regular talk about some of the factors he has also been one of the most productive president and recent history when it comes to a legislative record. biden spoke days after launching his reelection campaign with this video which opens images generate six abortion protests including a picture of florida governor desantis. biden mentioned freedom six times in the three minute video here is texas senator ted cruz with the looming debt ceiling fights. republicans in the house are responsible and joe biden what is he saying? he is saying i will not talk, i will not negotiate, i will not give up on anything anyhow, anyway. what is happening is joe biden s
paul: with a showdown looming in washington, the congressional budget office said this week that the u.s. is on target to add a staggering $19 trillion to the national debt in the next 10 years as the bill for runaway spending and a historic expansion of the federal government comes due. president biden is accusing republicans of taking the economy hostage with their call to restrain spending as part of a keel to a raise the a deal to the raise the debt ceiling. some of our republican friends in the house are talking about taking the economy hostage over the full faith and credit of the united states. i will not negotiate whether or not we pay our debt. i will not allow this nation to default. paul: let s bring many a veteran of past spending and debt ceiling fights, former republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania. senator,s so much for doing this. what did you learn this week from, about the budget and our fiscal problems from this report? well, i mean, the cbo s
so the brinksmanship is a perfect way to put it, the way that they are trying to posture. the take away from the last time around is republicans were hurt by some of those debt ceiling fights. the public did see it as something that was their fault. and they are trying to avoid that fate this time around. you know, it s interesting because this whole issue of the debt ceiling, it s a complicated issue. the new speaker will be sitting right behind him as he delivers this speech. and we re going to be anxious to see how he reacts as well. that s right. it is going to be, i guess last year was the one and only actual state of the union address, and you had the two women behind the president. and both members of his own party, and now you re going to see kevin mccarthy there for the first time, and you know wharks t what, the optics, yes there s theater, there s always these theater, but they do matter. you have that kind of posturing