debt ceiling strategy. which is he s positioning it right now as the white house taking this entranched stance and holding the economy hostage by saying, i want to negotiate. let s talk, and the white house has their line in the sand saying, we are not going to talk, not going to negotiate on spending cuts, what the debt ceiling is, it s about paying bills that we ve already spent. so for the moment, we have a long wray to go until this is finished, but for the moment he s positioning himself in a way that gives cover to these 18 moderate republicans. like, of course, you want to negotiate. that s what we came here to do. all right. the white house says increase the debt ceiling and then talk about anything else. kevin mccarthy says, no, talk about it all at once. put the 18 back up on the screen. joe biden carried their districts and have to worry about kevin. mccarthy looks at those 18 and some people he needs to worry about because a lot of the same people worried he gave too much
pull a fast one over the extremist wing? or was all that handshake agreement? or a third option according to new reporting, mccarthy actually just hit everything in an appendix to the document. according to punchbowl news, quote, secret three-page addendum to the rules package that mccarthy and his allies hashed out during several days of grueling negotiations with the house freedom caucus. it includes the most controversial concessions mccarthy made in order to come speaker, three seats on the rules committee for conservatives, freezing spending at fiscal year 2022 levels, a debt ceiling strategy, coveted community assignments, and more. now, to be clear here, the rules back as public, but this, the secret three-page deal, no, you and i do not get to see this, the actual sacred governing document of the new maga run house republican caucus. in fact, not even clear of all the republican members got to see. it too bad. remember, that republican steering the committee told axios this a
mccarthy actually just hit everything in an appendix to the document. according to punchbowl news, quote, secret three-page addendum to the rules package that mccarthy and his allies hashed out during several days of grueling negotiations with the house freedom caucus. it includes the most controversial concessions mccarthy made in order to come speaker, three seats on the rules committee for conservatives, freezing spending at fiscal year 2022 levels, a debt ceiling strategy, coveted community assignments, and more. now, to be clear here, the rules back as public, but this, the secret three-page deal, no, you and i do not get to see this, the actual sacred governing document of the new maga run house republican caucus. in fact, not even clear of all the republican members got to see. it too bad.
but he s got a lot of work to do, just with his own caucus, to say nothing of trying to get the house to actually do anything, which is going to be very difficult. yeah. well, that brings us to what s in the rules, molly. i also want to tell viewers, i mentioned at the top of the hour when nicolle and i did our toss we re got this summit there, and what we re waiting for so to see if any news happens, if president biden takes questions there, and we ll jump into that when we ve got something new. we ve got that in the corner of the screen. we ll get to that when it happens. punch bowl talks about this and say basically there s three seat on the rules committee, freezing spending, the debt ceiling strategy, the coveted committee assignments and more. and i guess my question there, which is sort of hypothetically or in the abstract is, if it s just horse trading over more conservatives on committees, why keep that so secret?
so they could bring potential subpoena targets. and of course we know that the oversight committee has said that they are interested in looking into the biden family s business dealings and whether or not there was any conflict of interest with joe biden either as president or vice president. so this is just an example of what the next two years will be like. and part of why they want to get the rules package done as quickly as possible because then it will set a stage to empower these committees to begin their investigations. so the rules package is a key part of punch bowl s reporting. it said that there is a secret three page addendum that mccarthy and his allies hashed out. and it includes concessions that mccarthy made in order to become speaker. three seats on the rules committee for conservatives, freezing spending at fiscal year 2022 levels, a debt ceiling strategy, coveted committee assignments and more.