punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
ceiling. clean debt lift. if republicans want to negotiate on spending, guess what? we do it every year. that s called writing the budget. the house will write their version. senate will write our version. they ll be very different. then we sit at a table, hash it out. so speaker mccarthy and his republican majority, they ve got the negotiating tool in their hand, which is the budget that they re writing for fy- 24, that we re working on right now. we shouldn t flirt with our credit worthiness. the amendment says we can t. the simplest solution is, confine it to the budget exercise. however, we get into this brinksmanship. we have a proposal based on something senator mcconnell did when president obama was president. we came up against a cliff. for one time, senator mcconnell wrote a rule that allowed the president to raise the debt ceiling to cover congress
build a wall. a government shutdown has a big psychological impact, and it really hurts our role in the world because other countries are looking to us when we default. when we were approaching the debt lift, the stock actually fell 1,000 points. the debt limit isn t spending muff money, it s just paying your credit card bill for money already spent. it s a big concern, shutting down the government over a wall. any time we talk about shutting the government is wrong. i ll support funding for border security, i don t think it needs to be a wall, but you can do virtual fencing and fencing and walls in certain areas, but to even toy with a government shutdown, i think it s dangerous