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boss had had to say about booid chb s position today. i hope president biden has begun to wake up. every rank and file democrat in the house and senate say the president s refusal to negotiate is untenable. the democracy waste anymore time. the white house has stop sleep walking toward default and reach a spending deal with the speaker. how do you see this coming to a final agreement? i think somewhere between now and maybe next friday when the president is anticipated to fly to japan, they need some principle so the staff can continue to work on. i think it would be difficult for the president to leave if we re still kind of barrelling towards a default. as important as the g7 meeting
down the path of default. avoiding default should not be contingent on passing the gop s hard right partisan agenda. the white house has to stop sleep walking towards default and reach a spending deal with his speaker. neil: all right. that is a clear way of telling you the two sides are far apart even though their staffs are still talking and will continue talking tomorrow when we re told all the players will gather to see what progress they re making on the debt ceiling impasse. the fact of the matter is with three weeks to go before we presumably run out of dough, they re nowhere near solving it. senator roger wicker joins us right now. senator, you ve got a good view of this. i think you re among the 43 republicans that say you wouldn t accept a debt ceiling only. i sure am, yes. neil: so that means that there s got to be some ground here. the administration doesn t seem
do something asap. where do things stand? we ve already hit the debt ceiling, all the tax receipts coming in that s being used to pay the bills and it s not enough. and it s coming in lower coming in lower than expected. right. the treasury is doing what it can, so-called extraordinary measures to move the money around until it hits the so-called x date which is now june 1st. we are sleep walking, congress is sleep walking toward a likely recession, a credit downgrade and the unraveling of the american economy and possibly the global financial system. you could see stocks plunge, interest rates spike, the cost of our debt would be even more expensive. if they don t get this resolved quickly, the united states can t pay all of its bills. as it picks and choose it is sends a message to the rest of the world that we are not credit worthy. american creddy worthiness is the basis of the entire financial system. you would see jobless rates spike, even a quick couple of days going