the ball is in joe biden s corporate septa him the pressure is on him. he is not going to be able to do this negotiating from his basement or from a beach home for esa company of cap mccarthy in person and solve this problem for. is out in japan now he is far from the country. finally, what do you predict? what you think will happen with the debt ceiling question what can they push it forward? can they get a temporary agreement or keep kicking the can down the road? i think june 1 is kind of an imaginary line for i think it is the first day i do see it getting so before then. but again we need to keep our powder dry pitlick cap mccarthy keep working away on this for joe biden is to realize we are not blinken on this one. we are not going to blink but he succumbed to the table with serious negotiation bird we need to have work requirements and recent about work requirements for medicaid, the snap program. we are only asking folks to work for 20 hours a week for if you are to have ch
on this, though? they should not. are you going to i cannot support a deal that is only about hurting people. so both sides really digging in there and there are other sticking points we should mention as well. one of them is the length of spending caps. democrats only onwant about two years of spending caps, republicans are pushing for as many as ten years. and there s the question of how long the debt ceiling question will last. the white house wants a longer hike, republicans pushing for a shorter hike. the two sides are still very far apart. this meeting at the white house today will be critical to see whether they can break the impasse and whether they actually have path forward with very little time left on the calendar. could the white house make a deal that does not have democratic votes? we ll see. melanie, thank you so much.
going to vote on this debt ceiling question we re about to take. i feel like i m being asked to take a road that is a point of moral dissonance for me. because while i deeply believe that both our democracy and our economy are important i believe that it is misplaced to change the senate rules only for the benefit of the economy when the warning lights on our democracy are flashing at the same time. madam president, in light of the cop knifing methods of voter suppression we have seen enacted into law since the january 6th attack on the capitol, i come to the floor today to share with the people of georgia and the american people the message that i shared with my colleagues over the weekend. and earlier today during our
honest. this has been a difficult difficult week for me as i pondered how am i going to vote on this debt ceiling question we re about to take. i feel like i m being asked to take a road that is a point of moral dissidents for me. because while i deeply believe that both our democracy and our economy are important, i believe that it is misplaced to change the senate rules only for the benefit of the economy, when the morning lights and our democracy are flashing at the same time. madam president, in light of the conniving methods of voter suppression we have seen enacted into law since the january 6th attack on the capital, i come to the floor
we changed the rules to protect the full faith and credit of the united states government. we ve decided we must do it for the economy but not for the democracy. so madam president, i will be honest. this has been a difficult week for me as i ve pondered how am i going to vote on this debt ceiling question we re about to take. i feel like i m being asked to take a road that is a point of moral dissonance for me. because while i deeply believe that both our democracy and our economy are important i believe that it is misplaced to change