round-the-clock negotiations are on in washington as america faces the very real chance of a potentially catastrophic debt default. house speaker kevin mccarthy saying today he sees progress, but there are still major sticking points that need to be ironed out on everything from spending caps to work requirements. one top republican negotiator warning a deal could be reached as soon as today or they could collapse completely. meanwhile, the national deficit is growing every second, and with no deal in place the u.s. could run out of money to pay its bills, which could have a disastrous impact on the economy. the treasury secretary now saying that could happen in just eight days. cnn s covering all of the angles. what are the obstacles reaching lawmakers from reaching a deal? negotiators were in the capitol until 2:30 a.m. this morning and now they re back in house speaker kevin mccarthy s office meeting virtually with the white house as they continue to try and hash out the
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capitol until 2:30 a.m. this morning and now they re back in house speaker kevin mccarthy s office meeting virtually with the white house as they continue to try and hash out the remaining sticking points of a potential deal. now, we do have some new reporting on what those outstanding issues are. we are told that they did make progress on new work requirements for some social safety net programs and that has been a huge issue they ve tried to resolve over the past several days and we re told progress has been made. another remaining sticking point is on energy permitting reforms. this is something that republican negotiator garrett graves really sees as a top priority and he s pushing that in talks today. another remaining issue is on spending cuts for domestic programs. i know they talked about that last night and are continuing to talk about that today. but we ll see how they re able to settle that dispute. now, we have heard from house speaker kevin mccarthy a couple of times today
time in new hampshire, and when iowa was the first in the nation caucus state and the first contest in the primary, no republican been able to secure the nomination without winning either iowa or new hampshire, and right now the polling is indicating that donald trump is winning both. marc caputo, great to talk to you, and thank you for your time, and we will look forward to talking to you again. you did not overhype it. it is great to have marc. and his stuff is so great to read. i agree. good stuff. so a whole lot of talk going around the capitol hill, and the house speaker kevin mccarthy is saying that every hour matters in the negotiations to avoid the debt default, and one negotiator garrett graves is saying that we have seen the movement, and little movement yesterday, and remember that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to on capitol hill, and the country is one week away from possibly defaulting and the nation s debt. house minority leader hakeem