the dnc back in 2020 allowed you to have 1% in the polls which we already have or a certain number of donors, not both. the rnc requires you to have both plus you turn over the donor list to the rnc so they can fund raise off the donor list you made. it seems a little onerous. the other thing, we had this big battle over the debt ceilings and we both know that the debt ceiling is going to be increasing, it always is. the reason this happens is because much of spending is on automatic pilot. i ll use the word unsustainable to describe the so called entitlement problems. nobody wants to run like that because it s electoral suicide. we need an amendment to fix spending to a certain percentage of the gdp with exceptions for war or natural disasters. otherwise the spending will keep going. it will be very interesting to see you on the debate stage. glad to hear your voice this northern. thanks for your comment on
for the president and something they really, really wanted, and it s super the president really wants too. there is a supreme court case on that, a ruling we re all awaiting, but that is one thing at least one thing the white house is watching and interested in seeing what the fallout may be and whether as you mentioned it, in fact, will dampen enthusiasm among some of the voters that the president needs going into the 2024 presidential election. the same thing with work requirements for certain recipients of federal aid. there are lots of democrats, progressive democrats who objected to the republican demands for those work requirements. so that s another area that the white house is concerned about and also we ll be watching to see the fallout from. so the debate over the debt ceilings and negotiations really consumed the president s agenda,
much. but you also look at the story of the last ten debt ceilings where republicans had the administration, only 65% of republicans voted for it. so even higher level than that. maria: yeah. so that really shows the truth about this. but democrats will vote for debt ceilings, republicans will not. we hit a two-thirds mark. the thing you want to look at is which democrats voted against this? aoc, bernie sanders. the progressives. maria: okay. why did the they vote against it? because we did get work requirements in welfare reform. did we it get it in everything? no. but we got it in welfare that puts people back to work, the core of what we looked for. maria: but to be clear, the bulk of that money in the irs, which was your priority the, which was conservatives priority, they do not want this president to hire 87,000 agents, the bulk of that money is still in the inflation reduction act, and he can use that. so you re talking about the $20 the billion over the following year. on
much. but you also look at the story of the last ten debt ceilings where republicans had the administration, only 65% of republicans voted for it. so even higher level than that. maria: yeah. so that really shows the truth about this. but democrats will vote for debt ceilings, republicans will not. we hit a two-thirds mark. the thing you want to look at is which democrats voted against this? aoc, bernie sanders. the progressives. maria: okay. why did the they vote against it? because we did get work requirements in welfare reform. did we it get it in everything? no. but we got it in welfare that puts people back to work, the core of what we looked for. maria: but to be clear, the bulk of that money in the irs, which was your priority the, which was conservatives priority, they do not want this president to hire 87,000 agents, the bulk of that money is still in the inflation reduction act, and he can use that. so you re talking about the $20 the billion over the following year. on
so the question is can they stop doing this or is this just how government works now? reporter: yeah, look, i know that we met the deadline here and they did so early, but the way in which all of this happened doesn t exactly inspire confidence. on the one hand you could look at it as an example of divided government actually working, an instance of compromise, fine. but this is also a moment where, and many democrats would point this out. if you want a debate over spending and budget caps, do that in the fall when you re supposed to talk about funding the government. we re going to do that battle in a few months. usually debt ceilings are raised and america pays its bills, which is why i think it s notable what monica is saying, that s what biden is going to choose to remind people of. as much as it feels like funding debates are the norm up here, this was not a super normal funding debate to have because it wasn t a question of what we re going to spend, it s a question of paying f