that s $12 trillion just over the last six years, jake, by republicans and democrats alike, and quite frankly i m tired of it. i want them to be adults, man up and get to the table and say we re going to figure this thing out. if it takes 20 years to balance a budget and rein in spending, so be it. the obama administration worked with republicans, so did president clinton who was the last president to balance the budget and that was in 1998. and we ve got to find a way to work together. now is the time to do it. your colleague republican kony g tony gonzalez told me he would consider passing a clean bill to raids raised debt ceiling. we re now in actual crunch time, real world consequences, you know, the u.s. has never defaulted on its debts. could this actually happen, if so it would be catastrophic. would you consider that if it came up, if we re getting close to this? if there was a gentleman s agreement or a handshake that said, hey, we re going to find a way, we re going to ag
they ve talked about how needs to be enforcement. what does enforcement look like? and even though the judges have a code of conduct, and so right now, it s kind of a gentleman s agreement of the financial disclosures. even what they are going to discuss, what they can get bipartisan support from, support through the filibuster, but they re going to find a way to come up with ethics guidelines, and enforcement, to your point. whether that s an inspector general, or some type of committee oversight. or maybe some kind of structure that already exists. putting the purview of that entity. but there are just more and more things that have been discovered and uncovered, all of these reports. i think it s just more so building the case that yes, the supreme court should be privy
interesting about today s hearing is that it will be a political event. it is one in which conservatives are pointing the finger at twitter saying they have suppressed important information about the hunter biden laptop. but what we learned from speaking to the man who ran ethical ai at twitter and one of the first people fired by musk, this is a missed opportunity. she says having musk in power as somebody who has been pushing the same narrative that conservatives have is amounts to a big change and a grave threat to democracy. have a listen to how she describes it. often there is this tacit a gentleman s agreement, right, that, you know, it is important to address this information, it is important to address radicalization and elon musk is a reminder that sometimes the problem is inside the house. what if the problem is a person of power? the missed opportunity she describes here, jose, amounts to a misunderstanding, she says, of what twitter actually is when it
numbers who have been here for a long time that the concerns of these far-right members aren t necessarily legitimate concerns because that s not how kevin mccarthy was going to run his house. but regardless, these republicans want to ensure that they have power, that they hold the speaker to account, and you re absolutely right, there s the rules package that they re going to vote on today, but that s only some of the things. as melanie said, there s a gentleman s agreement between the far right members and mccarthy on all of the other things including numbers of house freedom caucus members who are committees. that s why you have questions everywhere. i don t even like the terms right/left anymore. a lot of holdouts are not truly conservatives in terms of lower tax, regulation. a lot are thinking about individual fame, if you will. but tony gonzalez, nancy mace, two more establishment republicans who are conservatives. listen to them saying, well, kevin mccarthy gave a lot that way
abdication. there s no blueprint of what a king or, indeed, a prime minister of parliament should do. it s the throne, or it s mrs. simpson. it s one or the other. he can t have both. however, before edward has made a decision, the story breaks in the press. ultimately, the british newspapers realize they simply can t hold off any longer, this story is too big. they break the gentleman s agreement and decide to publish it. the british empire faces an extraordinary crisis. not for centuries have these houses of parliament witnessed so dangerous a political struggle. shall king edward viii marry mrs. simpson? no, say the ministers of the cabinet, supported by the church of england and the upper classes. they are bitter in opposition to the king marrying the american woman twice divorced