brendan. that s so depressing to hear when kid are dying. i don t disagree at all and the problem is that most of the country is moving further and further along on this, and we have a party that is completely stuck, and it just looks like a party that s smaller and smaller and one of the reasons why we have had such bad showings because we are so obsessed with that primary we are so in fear of losing a primary that we re out of touch. and so cold in the face of such tragedies. because it s not saying that they re bad people, people who don t want to vote for this. don t want to do anything about it they re not bad people you wonder about what jamal bowman said, maybe they don t understand because it hasn t hit them personally, hasn t affected them personally yet, and god forbid it ever does, but it does make you ask that question. and there is an ethos in the house republican conference that more guns is the solution, and i
cory booker of new jersey, tim scott was. furthermore now mayor of los angeles karen bass who was a democrat in the house. listen, i think the political reality gets very difficult this time around because the house is republican. republicans in the house are not going to want to touch this even if republicans in the senate vote for it. i think it s going to be a very, very uphill climb. even if all democrats were kevin mccarthy has to bring it to the floor. i don t have right now sitting here today january 31st, i don t have the sense that this is a live option. you know what, these issues take on a life of their own. it s possible there becomes huge momentum on this. jake, this issue of the debt ceiling, we have new details this morning about president biden and kevin mccarthy when they meet at the white house tomorrow sorry. let me read you what s expected.
why not do that a week ago, two weeks ago or a month ago? i don t know why the republican leadership thought it was a good idea to allow this narrative to go on for all this time and boot him off the committees anyway. that s above my pay grade. george santos will not be sitting on the small business committee and the science, space and technology committee. these are two relatively minor committees on capitol hill. it won t have an impact in legislating or governing. it does signal that george santos is becoming more of an out cast in the house republican conference. a new news day poll finds that 78% of voters in his district say he should resign after admitting he lied about his resume and background. does this poll have any meaning or weight on capitol hill? reporter: it should. this is the local paper on
these episodes some years back, and he actually cut a pretty good deal with president obama that house republicans, a majority of them, refused to go along with, boehner didn t have the vote, but the deal he had cut with president obama would have significantly reduced government spending. so there s also a history in the house republican conference of members holding out for less, or holding out for nothing, and that s another dynamic to keep a close eye on. but the energy should be spent on trying to find an agreement, not on what to do if we can t find an agreement. why don t we try to balance the budget? i mean in the 90s, we balanced the budget. we had a surplus, how do we balance the budget in 2023? it s just another yawner. if you want to go out there and tell people that the national debt right now is 120% of gdp compared with say 109% in 2019, where does that even rank in the grand scheme of things, with inflation, terrorism, electoral reform, these are not even on the to
those those candidates, elected in districts that joe biden won? they know every day this goes on they re losing. so they can t really give in. can they? it s a change in culture in the conference. certainly from the time when you came in and over the time that i was there. in the beginning a lot more moderates and a recognition moderates were what gave you majority. people isn t swing seats. the seats that decide who s in majority. in the beginning think about that. think how far you could go. putting these people in a bad position? over time when there s gerrymandering, whatever it is, the party changed so much. the culture in the house republican conference is such that nobody really cares at all about swing seats from moderates. all they care about is primary voters and base voters. moderates are fewer in number and they just don t really feel like they have the space those 200, not all moderate. lots of conservatives in there. reality is