senate republicans? i can t imagine you re going to get senate republicans to vote for something that exceeds the sequester caps. i think it s a huge mistake for the country. the number one problem we face is our debt. we have to do something about our debt. let me read you something that eric cantor, the majority leader in the house, had to say when the house sort of gave up negotiations with the president. he said, i know the president is trying to see which republican senator he can pick off in the senate. i hope that the senate republicans stand strong so we can speak with one voice. do you think at the end of the day senate republicans are more eager for some sort of resolution than house republicans are and will, indeed, sort of give up on some of the things the house republicans have been pushing for? you know, i m not positive. i think every member of our republican caucus is concerned about the debt, we re concerned about giving him a blank check to borrow more, and i wo
we have. if we continue to do that, we re going to make it difficult for our kids and grandkids for future generations to enjoy this amazing thing we call america. answer my direct question. are you prepared to make a deal and let it go past thursday. you should be asking harry reid and barack obama this. if they were here, i would. i m asking you. we are prepared to do what needs to be done to address the underlying problems in this country. but you won t raise the debt limit if it doesn t do that? we re not going to break the sequester caps. that s one thing where we save the american taxpayers some money. we think that s important achievement. unless we kind the mandatory changes, long-term changes in mandatory spending that put us on a path to balance and address the underlying problem. you can t keep raising the limit on a credit card if you re not going to address the problem long term. i understand that.
debt ceiling before the deadline next week. ran paul met with a president on the senate floor with a group of republicans. do you have a bottom low below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff. i think compromises is in the eyes of the beholder. we offered 13 compromises this week to open the government. the democrats rejected each one of them. to me, there is a big picture problem. we have the debt. we re borrowing more than a million dollars every minute. we do have to address that. i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps. these things that we but into law and restrain spending already. and it s funny, they re all about obama care being the law of the land. so is the sequester. the xwester is the l er iseques
out of negotiations with the president saturday leaving their members in the senate to try and cut a deal that will reopen the 2k3w0 government and resolve the debt ceiling before the deadline next week. joining me now is republican senator rand paul who met with the president on friday along with a group of republicans. senator, thank you for being here. do you have a bottom line below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff? well, you know, i think compromise is in the eyes of the beholder. i m willing to compromise. we ve offered 13 compromises this week to the open the government, and the democrats have rejected each one of them. to me there s a big picture problem. we have the $17 trillion debt, we re borrowing more than $1 million every minute, so we do have to address that. i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps, these things
the underlying problem. we keep spending more money than we have. if we continue to do that, we re going to make it difficult for our kids and grandkids, for future generations to enjoy this amazing thing we call america. answer my direct question. are you prepared to make a deal and let it go past thursday. you should be asking harry reid and barack obama this. if they were here, i would. i m asking you. we are prepared to do what needs to be done to address the underlying problems in this country. but you won t raise the debt limit if it doesn t do that? we re not going to break the sequester caps. that s one thing where we save the american taxpayers some money. we think that s important achievement. unless we kind the mandatory changes, long-term changes in mandatory spending that put us on a path to balance and address the underlying problem. you can t keep raising the limit on a credit card if you re not going to address the problem