york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
in my much simpler world all we can do at this point is provide the country with modest examples of people who prospered as a result of learning a skill, mastering a trade, going to work. it is discouraging to those people. it is very discouraging to those people who played by the rules to see somebody else s thumb on the scale and to see things weighted against them like this. i wish i could speak to it other than to say that we don t do that. you say it might not be your lane, the lane of economists, the administration likes to lean on s economists for their thoughts. we spoke to one that worked in the obama administration who advised former president obama who said on this program we get wanting to help out homeowners, get people into homes, but this is not the way to do it. here are two economic experts slamming the proposal. listen. it is a bad policy