as i ve said on this program repeatedly, these people are on a mission to discredit this president. they are on a mission to make sure that this default happens on his watch. the bill is there. the clean bill is there. all they have to do is vote on it in the house and boehner can t do that. so now we re at a point, we re supposed to believe that mitch mcconnell and harry reid are so close to a deal. whose numbers are we using? are we using sequester numbers, numbers worse than that? and how long is this deal going to be? month, two months, three months? mr. president, when you meet with the, quote, big four later on today, the leaders from the house and the senate, understand, sir, respectfully, that the people are on your side. the best negotiation is telling boehner what to do. we ll deal with the numbers later on. the public is with the president and the democrats. they are in a position now to make sure that they go to the floor and take a vote on the
they are there 22 republicans, absolutely. they are there and probably more. they want to settle this. give us a clean cr and let s go back to the budget. the president ace original budget was $1.2 trillion. i think paul ryan s was 975, we re like 9 that s where we made the budget. they ve come an enormous way. we are in sequester numbers. why can t they just say we won and move on. i think they are a little afraid of being primaried from the right and going home to become private citizens again. immigration resform, extremely important to you and extremely important to the country. it went to the house and it seemed to be starting to die. would you and other folks who are believe in this bill, who i would be willing to soften it or weaken to get the republican support you need to get it revived again?
issue. don t you think it s a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. the sequester was president obama s idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? they love saying it was agreed upon to be something both sides disliked. now it s the republican c.r. that accepts those sequester numbers, which is bad for defense, particularly in a state like mine of virginia. but this is the republican number. the democratic number is 1056. the republicans are at 988. we ve send that number which you yourself have just agreed is bad for our defense and national security. no. so republicans are winning a fight that is hurting ou
beyond that it s been my way or the highway on obama care. the sequester numbers, which both sides agree is a terrible idea for poll sand terrible for the economy, but 988 includes that. and the democrats already caved on splitting the defense and nondefense you make it sound like democrats and president obama have just rolled over. republicans didn t get entitlement reform, tax reform. they asked for a lot and they ve gotten very little. all those things can continue to be discussed in the context of the budget. when? a continuing resolution is meant to be a clean document to move the budget forward. it is supposed to be a budget number. nothing prevents this conversation from continuing for an actual budget if the republicans could move forward with the budget from the conference. these shutdowns have happened over spending. he even though it s been 17 years. this one isn t about spending. like you said everyone s agreeing to the 2011 levels with the sequester. this is
that? please educate tom. first of all, the number we re talking about, the spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this is agreed upon, because i think on all of our sides, we agree that $17 trillion is just a little high debt to have. we need to start bringing spending down. so he didn t really really? it s been stuck at 16.7. the deficit has been coming down for a number of reasons. we have a $16.7 trillion debt right now, so yes, he s gone along with though from 2011, but beyond that it s been my way or the highway on obama care. but the sequester numbers, which both sides agree is terrible for policy, but it includes that, and already caved on splitting.