at any moment now, president biden is going to speak on the phone and finalize the bill. the president had this to say about the negotiations. reporter: mr. president, are you positive this deal will get to your desk? yes, it will. i m about to call mccarthy at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. reporter: what are the sticking points? none. should all democrats vote for this bill? still anyone s guess if the house has enough votes to get this bill to the president s desk. but speaker mccarthy says he s confident the deal will pass. back to february 1st, i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let america be able to work again,
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remark that there was nothing in there, no democratic wins at all win thought that was laughable. i mean, the fact is, we elected president biden to go into rooms like this, be an adult in a room full of kindergartners, and be able to bring people together. and that s what he did. democrats get a two-year reprieve. and for all the talk about work requirements, there was not a lot of juice for that squeeze from republicans. the fact is, we ve excluded veterans, we ve excluded the homeless from these work requirements. we ve only raised the age limit from 49 to 54 for those individuals without children. it s able-bodiyied individua without children. that s not a whole lot of juice for the squeeze for the republican party. this is a win and the spending doesn t change. and non-defense spending doesn t change. so when you look at all of these things, for american people, they re going to be like, eh, i don t understand half of the things going on in this debate. but i know if we defaul
process now. i have talked to between two and three members. i didn t talk to two people who say they won t vote this. bob good would not vote for this. it doesn t matter if mother teresa came back for the dead and called for it. he was never going to vote for it and he isn t going to. i m talking to, jake, understands that when you re reducing spending and peeling back the regulatory state, when you are unlocking american energy and getting people back to work, this is a big deal. what concessions did mccarthy make to biden and democrats to get it across the finish line? that is kind of the amazing part to me. there were no wins for democrats. as you look at the state of policy today in this country and
agreement. on friday president biden on his way to camp david said they were very close to a deal and expressed some optimism and then yesterday the white house negotiators as well as hill negotiators weren t talking on the phone and virtually as they tried to strike this deal and it eventually happened with a call between president biden and house speaker mccarthy where they reached that deal in principle, we re told, according to sources. now, they are expected to speak again. president biden told us reporters that they were going to talk at 3 p.m. to what he said is dot the is and cross the ts. he also when asked whether there were any sticking points said, quote, none. that has been the question looming over the white house is can they also get consensus among house democrats, especially on some of these issues like expanding work requirements, some of which we slowly learned about but are still waiting for the text. the bottom line is that there