there arheree thirty one congressmen. they are ready to blow u up thie entire deal despite being just. days from default. comphis deal fails, fails completely. and that s why thesetely. membe and others will be absolutely opposed to the deal . l and we will do everything ino our power to sto p and end it now. tomorrow s bill is a bunch fake news and fake talking pointsin that will do nothing to rein ino out-of-control federal spending. nofedera republican in good conscience should support this, consciousnot one republican shl vote for this deal . it is a bad deal . not well, not only ours republicans becoming deeply divided on this, but there are even threats to oust mccarthyakb as speaker because of the dealee he mad de with biden. i joining me now is texas congressman chip roy and florida congressma n byronnd donalds. both are members of the freedomo caucus and both are againsth met this deal . welcome to you both, startinglc with you, congressman. ome . and chip roy, w
ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s
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well, look, it s good to be with you this evening. i think if you re talking abouts a step b towards balancing the budget, i would say this is maybe like a tip towards that. not really a step.ally a sy of w the reality of where we are right now is this. this deal is going to the floor for a full vote of the house of representatives. i do notic kaylee thats have n the congressional democrats have not held a press conference todayotheld anc. they they have not really talkedm pef about this deal today. they seem perfectly happy with this deal . and the reason why is ,of is because it keeps all ofnding joe biden s policies and his reckless spending in place. nonone of that is really touchei except for about 12 billionon i dollars in nondefense discretionary. if you re trying to find a pathi forwarndrward, chip talked abouc you could find a minor deal to be able to go back and continue to negotiate this. but at the endday, of the day, is there a minor is there a cap in spending here? is b
actually increase defense spending and decrease the nondefense discretionary. just think about this: we re talking about fiscal year 22 numbers being what was just over a month ago. our spending just a month ago, and every republican can almost every republican in the house of representatives, voted against that $1.7 trillion package. what speaker mccarthy s asking is to just go back to fiscal year 22 numbers. we can cut $100 billion of unobligated covid money. there is so much waste out there, maria, we don t have to look at defense. but you know what? we do need to look at everything though, because there could be some waste in defense. we need to make sure that the funding in defense is actually going towards our military and our soldiers. maria: well, they re talking about woke transgenderrism in the military. want to get your take on that when we come back. i am talking with the chairman of the house ways and means committee, congressman jason smith, this morning. we ll be rig