you re counting. so how did hakeem jeffries is counting. how did that come about, in terms of your relationship with speaker mccarthy, and in terms of getting a lot of democrats to vote for stuff that, you know, they weren t that wild about, tell us how that worked. you know, clearly there were a few skirmishes in some areas where there was concern, whether that was in the permitting space or around the snap program, the biden administration did a tremendous job of negotiating, you know, a resolution that actually because of the increased exemptions related to veterans or people who were homeless or people who were aging out of foster care that actually more people will be eligible to snap, not less. so that was good. but i think we basically took the position that we ll allow everyone to evaluate the resolution on the merits, make sure there is real engagement between the administration and
program. it is likely it did increase. i think when you argue cbo is wrong, you re you know, that is the not the best argument. let s listen to some of the argum arguments that were made yesterday by republicans. i respectfully disagree with the analysis by the cbo on this. they re not looking at things that will happen tomorrow, that will happen the next day. they re not looking at the potential growth in the economy. that came out last night. the math is wrong. you say the math is flat out wrong? we need to see the home work on this. can you just the cbo is the best we ve got, right, at estimating these things. set up by congress. it s nonpartisan. i wonder if you can remind people they talk to all sorts of economists, et cetera. this isn t just like a guessing partisan guessing game, right? oh, yeah. cbo has an enormous amount of data that it is relying on. it is doing a lot of math. i don t think either of the
of older workers, the president pushed hard for expanding that snap program, food benefit program so that people who are homeless or who are veterans actually have fewer restrictions on their ability to claim those benefits. on net, those two changes actually mean that more people will get access to those benefits. yes this is a compromise. it has elements that we wouldn t put in there. the president pushed hard to have tax increases included on this. we don t think it s just a spending issue we have. republicans rejected those. at the same time we were able to protect key priorities of the democratic party. on a very, very busy day, i really appreciate you coming over to take some time to talk to us. thank you. thank you. and coming off two days of barn storming through iowa, ron desantis today is in new hampshire, and he got a little testy. the florida governor snapped this morning when a reporter questioned his willingness to field voters questions. governor, how come you r
remember, we also got new exceptions in this bill. we ll have exemptions from 18 to the new population of 54. so not just a new population, but these new three exemptions will go from even the existing population. so some people who have these requirements now will no longer. if they re homeless, if they re veterans, if they re foster youth aged out of the system up to 24. so the announcement is being finalized but we believe those who are off those requirements because of those exemptions will be about the same number as those who are phased in on age. you have to remember this. this entire staff change is sunset in 2030 to give congress a chance to see how the new exemptions work and how the new ages work and they can opine in a future bill if these changes have made a difference in the snap program.
past. reporter: so really the target for president biden and kevin mccarthy in the coming days will be targeting those middle ground lawmakers. the president has said that he does believe this bill will reach his desk, but it certainly will be a rocky road to get there. great to have you guys on to lay this out on where things look this morning. thanks, guys. let s talk about what is actually in the bill. it would raise the debt limit through 2025 which means that this fight would for the have to happen again before or during the 2024 election. it caps nondefense spending in physical year 2024, but allows 1% increase in 2025. and it allocates $6. billion for nondefense programs in 2024. wasn t part of the negotiations but neither social security nor medicare will be affected by this. the deal tightens work requirements for both the s.n.a.p. program and temporary assistance for needy families program. under the law right now,