republicans around him have been very confident all day long that they will have the vote. they will not have their entire conference. they know that, and we know that as well because at least 35 republicans have already come out and said that they will be a hard no on this, could that change in the next 5 to 6 hours, of course that could. depending on what kind of dealings might be happening behind closed doors. we have not gotten a chance to ask the speaker if he has heard from the hard nos, i m hopeful when he does walk through here we ll be able to grab him for you and ask him a few questions. because look, these are not just house freedom caucus folks that are against this bill. we are also seeing somebody like representative nancy mace who has a really big problem with this bill, in fact she was tweeting earlier today that this is such a bad bill that congress says it s going to get around it s going to stop the spending
look at this debt limit agreement and where it satisfied some and ticks off others. aishah? hi, neil. chad is right. these republican hard nos feel that they had all the leverage when the tax began after the negotiations back and forth. here we are and they feel like they got outsmarted by the president. the deal doesn t go far enough. let s break it down and take a look at what they re upset about. this package brings discretionary spending levels down below the levels of this year. fiscal year 23. republicans for the bill are framing this as a big cut, bringing us back to 2022 spending. but some freedom caucus folks say this is not good enough. we have to go back to prepandemic spending levels. defense is a problem. the bill goes for biden s request. it allows for a 1% increase for
why do support the war that you constituents oppose? how does this benefit the unite states? were you proud that you helped russia and china align in a block that is more powerful tha the united states? is that good for us? how does that work, congressman? he cannot make it. mike turner cannot come either. mitt romney of utah did not respond at all. lindsey graham and mitch mc connell were hard nos. no way, we will not answer questions. we will answer cnn first. everyone we just mentioned is a republican. they cannot defend this, of course. only a very tiny number of republicans voted to stop this insanity before it destroys the economy of the united states an triggers world war iii. they have been punished for it. a lot of republicans care. on msnbc if you are against world war iii you are an agent of food and. 10 house republicans voted against military aid. the usual suspects . i will read them out.
i think there s probably a little movement with chip roy. i m not so sure about the hard liners. and french hill is a good friend. i think that it appears mccarthy allies are trying to divide, split up these 20 members. you don t want to get into a negotiation with all of them. you want to pick them off one at a time. and that s what they re trying to do. now, look, if i were a betting man, i don t see how you get from they need to flip 17 votes. and i suspect there are probably at least five hard nos. i could probably sense at least five, maybe six who are hard nos. it s those last few votes they need to flip that will be hard. is there a path? yeah. but it s a very narrow one. i guess you could combine calling the herd, pulling off a few votes with some democratic not presents. it doesn t sound like democrats are going to help bail mccarthy out. he doesn t have many relationships with folks on that side, has no relationship with