The looming threat of a US government shutdown raises concerns and casts uncertainty on the provision of public services and the job security of federal employees, as Americans brace for a potential impact on their daily lives.
marjorie taylor greene is like, here s a wi we re going to structure s.n.a.p. work requirements. they have to go on podcasts and fill in on newsmax. none of them want to actually do this. in the end when you re actually doing a deal like this, the most dangerous people, and lawrence is someone who has worked on the hill, people who combine idealogical verosity with knowledge. that s why stephen miller was so dangerous on immigration stuff. he knew what he was talking about. these folks don t have that. they can t actually extract meaningful policy concessions because they don t have the knowledge to do it. sorry, alex, i want to ask you specifically this. there was one other policy personality the table that got a lot. chris hayes did talk about it last night on his show. let s talk about joe manchin for a moment. the thing is this was a triumph of ordinary politicians. he s og of ordinary politicians
provide a substantial number of votes at the end of the day to push this over the line. now, the freedom caucus members are singing a familiar tune here, they re saying the cuts in this bill are insufficient, the bill is gimmicky and swampy, that republicans gave up too much. as you note, it is a very different message coming from speaker mccarthy, his leadership team and their allies. they say this is historic and it cuts spending year over year, which is they re correct about that, it is rare in washington for that to happen. they have some conservative policy concessions to brag about on top of work requirements, permitting reform, restarting student loan payments after that pause and rescinding some irs funding, all this they say they did while controlling one half of one branch of government. the vibe i m getting that we re putting up on capitol hill is that the center of the republican conference is holding, most members are on board, he will lose the house freedom caucus most
for a $4 trillion debt ceiling hike. president joe biden addressed some of the concerns saying, quote, the agreement represents a compromise which means not everyone gets what they want. that s the responsibility of governing. and this agreement is good news for the american people because it prevents what could have been a catastrophic default and would have led to an economic recession. retirement accounts devastated millions of jobs lost. while the deal has still a long way to go toog the approval of congress, cnn s manu raju has more on why there could be opposition from both sides of the aisle. reporter: after a furious round of negotiations and staring at the prospects of the first-ever debt default in american history, the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, reached a deal late saturday with president biden to raise the national debt limit and do that for two years time. also to include a range of other spending cuts and other policy
mccarthy reached a deal to raise the national debt limit and do that for two years time and a range of other spending cuts and other policy concessions that republicans had demanded including pairg back some social safety net programs central to their efforts here but the conceded and those accounts, they ultimately shook hands, reached an agreement in principle and now the challenge begins because there is push back. some do not believe this bill went far enough, they believe the retreat from the republican position demanding even deeper spending cuts. this proposal would cut spending, go back to 2023 levels of federal spending. republicans wanted to go back some of the conservatives wanted to go back to 2022 left but the white house conceded substantially on that approach. they didn t want any cuts as part of this agreement. on the democratic side many didn t want work requirements on social safety net programs like food stamps and opposed any