disaster averted? after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. the president and the speaker make a deal to raise the debt ceiling. but the hardest part may lie ahead. convincing think parties to vote for it. plus, game on. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2016. ron desantis jumps into the 2024 race and levels his toughest attacks yet on donald trump. but will it be enough? rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropping like a rock. and target in the cross-hairs. the retail giant is the latest battlefield for conservatives hoping to roll back lgbtq rights. welcome to inside politics sunday . i m abby phillip. they have a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a economic catastrophe. it took weeks of negotiations, no one on either side though is thrilled. but here is what we know about the deal this morning. it raises the debt ceiling for two years, it caps federal spending, also
to pull the moderate democrats in. but some of the things see leadership touting, that is not a win. student loan repayment, there was a moment on a conference call yesterday where virginia fox was wishing it went further and kevin mccarthy had to come back and say we have statuary pay go. and there is a bunch of other things like the irs money where they got $1.9 billion and republicans said wasn t there $80 billion that we wanted back here. i would say that is objectively a very small sliver of the irs funding. and, you re sort of touching on something here. what pramila jayapal just said in that clip that lauren played was basically that they are not reducing spending. military spending is not being touched. veteran spending is not being touched. spending is going to continue to increase under this bill. and i think for a lot of republicans, that is not acceptable. and they re saying as much.