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reporter: and democrats are arguing that there could be a discussion potentially on spending cuts in the future, but that that in the past has never been tied to discussions about the debt ceiling. and the white house had a very firm statement, making it clear that this meeting on wednesday is not going to be about negotiations over the debt ceiling, saying, quote, the president will ask speaker mccarthy if he intends to meet his constitutional obligation to prevent a national default as every other house and senate leader in u.s. history has done. and as leaders mcconnell, schumer and jeff frees have all pledged to do. he will underscore that the economic security of all americans cannot be held hostage to force unpopular cuts on working families. we do know there are going to be a couple months before this issue really hits a major head and that of course is coming in june when we know that secretary yellen has made clear she is going to run out of extraordinary measures to keep th
republican leaders mcconnell and mccarthy at odds . this is thousands of migrants entering the united states in recent days. those numbers are expected to grow even more when a trump-era border policy expires next week. lauren fox is on the hill on this funding deal, the bipartisan framework. major progress, lauren, where are things headed now? they have an agreement in principle. for the last several weeks they were at a standstill, a logjam here on capitol hill when it came to whether or not they would come up with a new government spending deal for the next year. they finally do have this agreement, but there s still a lot of work to do. there s a lot 6 hickups, bull
playing out? reporter: senator mcconnell is focused on one thing, governing, getting the spending pack allege out the door and approved before the holidays. kevin mccarthy is focusing on the job of speakership, so he is going to, of course, oppose the spending. he argues that house republicans, of course, just winning a narrow majority, they should have control over what is in the spending pack age some o who they want to stop kicking this can down the road, which they have done time and time again. it s a foreshadowing of what we ll see in the next year, where mcconnell will be used as a weapon, if you will, a pawn in these discussions that house republicans are having. we know that mitch mcconnell is good at playing political