extreme maga republican effort to default on our debt, crash the economy. i m worried about the consequences of us not coming to terms and raising the debt ceiling. at this point, it s economic terrorism. my communications to them are, stand firm. there s no reason not to. stand firm. you have a white house that is not serious. republicans want to drive us over the cliff of default. it s idiotic for anybody to consider anything other than what we had. we will ride it out. neil: does that sound like progress? we ll see. both sides far apart as lawmakers race to cut a deal we re told a week away. this as fitch, the big ratings agency warns that a credit down grade could be in the cards and maybe soon regardless of how this works out. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to get to. let s get to it with chad pergram on capitol hill on where things stand right now. hi, chad. good afternoon. the move by fitch and the ratings arm of morning start caught the att
but if there is a national policy, you re going to have reasonable restrictions. but you re also going to have reasonable exceptions. there has to be a consensus form and that s generally done at the state level. so our position has to be sold quite frankly i thought nikki haley did a nice job talking about the compassionate side of it. where we ve got to remember how increasing maternal health care where we ve got to make sure that we provide additional adoption services because these are challenges and we ve got to meet them with compassion. real quick on that vivek ramaswamy got a lot of buzz, a lot of attention, a lot of support apparently a lot of money. from his performance but i m told you and some of your colleagues up there didn t flip over and particularly his comment that you re all bought and paid for all of that, and he went after all of you guys. got a lot of attention. how do you feel about him? well, i think he s out of step. i think he s someone that is
only poll that matters is what happens on election day. look at ron desantis electoral history. he eeked out a small win in 2018. after the people of florida got to know him for four years, they re-elected him by almost a 20-point margin. a 19% improvement. neil, that swing voters, persuadable voters, center left voters. the first republican statewide candidate to win miami-dade county in over a generation. that s the kind of result we need. donald trump didn t flip new voters in 2020 on a net basis from 2016. he was flat or slightly down. ron desantis grew his constituency, grew his voter ways and persuaded voters in the middle. that s the kind of conservative that we need that can defeat joe biden in november 2024. robert mueller can beat joe biden. donald trump can t. we shall see about that. what kind of reaction did you get from president trump when you said look, i m going with