williamson for jumping into the race ahead of him? did he want a clear field to run against the republican nominee in 2024? just not tracking that. i mean, if i had a what is it called a little globe here. crystal ball. crystal ball that i can tell you, magic 8-ball, whatever, if i could feel her aura. i just don t have anything to share on that. joining us now, white house reporter for bloomberg, kayla gardener. the white house not taking marianne williamson s bid too seriously, nor do we to, but it is telling. the lack of democratic challengers president biden is facing. not many months ago, there were real concerns with his poll numbers down, they were expecting a tough midterms, that maybe there would be for the first time in several cycles, an intra-party challenge for a sitting president. that no longer seems to be the case. talk to us a little bit about how the white house now views the months ahead as they ramp up
have notified the crew earlier. the plan does not include the changes that the biden administration has been calling for such as upgrading to a faster braking system and paying workers sick leave. all this comes just days before new york folk southern ceo allen shah is set to testify before the senate public works committee. we ll hear more from this when we have transportation secretary pete buttigieg on morning joe. president biden last week told reporters he does intend to go but right now no plan in the works. the white house says biden has not yet visited because he doesn t want to protract from cleanup efforts.
accommodate a higher demand for tickets. this comes after original tickets for the dinner was reportedly sold out in less than two months. desantis has been on the road for most of the past month promoting his new memoir on his time in washington, d.c. in office. at a news conference yesterday council chairman phil mendelson said he sent a letter to draw changes on the city s crime law. three senate leadership aides tell nbc news the vote will still happen. the resolution already passed the house and president biden caught many democrats off-guard last week when he said he would not veto the resolution if it made it to his desk. the d.c. council passed a sweeping overhaul of the city s criminal code late last year. the bill would have reduced the maximum sentences for crimes like robbery and carjacking
his budget today. he penned an essay today in the new york times, sort of playing these things out. we ll have to wait for the republican response, particularly from mccarthy, as to what exactly his budget will be, especially because they ll have such big weigh-in in what that ultimately looks like. akayla, update us, if you will, on the relationship between president biden and speaker mccarthy. we recall they met about a month back, and both sides deemed it cordial but acknowledged it was superficial. they didn t get into the substance of the matters that lie ahead. what s plans for them to speak again, and how is the white house categorizing the dynamic between the men? the white house said biden is welcoming forward to working with mccarthy. we saw friendly moments between them at the state of the union, the national prayer breakfast. they re not going to get into the nitty-gritty until we get the text and see the budget proposals from the white house and mccarthy. biden is go
the way this unfolded is the house had to vote last month on the same disapproval resolution. congress can actually disapprove of some steps that the d.c. government takes and voted on this last month and at the time the white house position was we don t like it, but they never said there was going to be a veto or anything like that. and democrats worked in the house to keep down the number of voters who voted for this republican drafted disapproval resolution. it s kind of complicated but now it heads to the senate and likely to vote on the senate tomorrow. and even though the d.c. city council has withdrawn it or tried to withdrawn it, it s still going to get a vote. so the house democrats in particular feel they were just absolutely blind-sided by the white house, didn t know biden was going to make this statement which he did last week. and the white house has spent the last couple of days defending themselves saying i