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Candidates fm the libertarian, unicorn and socialist parties participate in a debate on topics such as immigration and criminal Justice Reform. This was hosted by the Free Equal Elections Foundation in new york city and runs about two hours. Good evening. I am christina. I am thrilled to welcome you to the second event of the 2024 free equal president ial debate series. We are live from new york city. I want to begin by thanking marie for another stunning rendition of our national anthem. And lift every voice and sing. Morecans identify as independent than as either republican or democrat. That is why we want to amplify more voices and choices to encourage discourse, raise awareness of the multitude of choices the voters actually have. Tonights debateil candidates running in this years president ial election. Candidates were selected by the public through our voting up. They represent a variety of Party Affiliations and bring an array of positions to theable. We will laugh targeting qu
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Sent to President Bidens desk to be signed into law. Senator mccarthy, senator schumer and the president spoke about the legislation which suspends the debt until january 2025 and could reduce the deficit by 1. 5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Speaker mccarthy after the house passage. Speaker mccarthy thank thank you all for being here. I want to start by saying how grateful i am to garrett graves and Patrick Mchenry have given their time and talent for more than a month. We would not be without them and the country and congress owes them a debt. On february 1, i got my first meeting with the president. Ive been thinking about this day before my vote for speaker because i knew the debt ceiling was coming. I wanted to make history. I wanted to do something no other congress has done. That we would literally turn the ship, for the first time in quite some time we would spend less than a year before. Tonight we all made history. Because this is the biggest cut and savings this c
Agreement between the two of them the situation, and i have been through a few of these debt ceiling dramas there is no solution in the senate. We have congressional leaders exit the white house following the meeting with the president on the debt limit. Mccarthy mccarthy i came down to see him and said lets Work Together in a responsible, sensible way and lift the debt ceiling and find a way we can curve this increasing debt while respecting every American Families and three largest banks. Nothing has changed since then. The only thing that has changed, the house has raised the debt ceiling. Thats why we had a meeting today. Everybody in this meeting reiterated the positions. I didnt see any movement. The president said the sphaf should be together. I was very clear with the president , we have two weeks ago. If Chuck Schumer would pass something. But i dont think they can pass anything. Unfortunately, the president has waited 97 days without ever meeting. Every day i asked that we me