american people. x news pola l shows that the president is facing serious competition from democratsfrom. he only captures 62% of the vote against challengers. robert kennedy jr. and marianne williamson. and worse, 60 seven percent of americans view a biden victory in 2020 four as they , quote , a deserve or setback for america. the media pointing out thatface president biden does face an uphill battle,ll a horrible newe horrible for joe biden. whrrible for joe biden. the president leads his democratic competitors by a huge margin, two thirds of all of the american peopleed surveyed. 66% of the publi, c say that a biden victory would either be a setback or a disaster for the united states . it isastes not an outlier. right. so our cnn poll had kennedy at 20%. we ve had two fox polls out 1 in the last month. one had hi.m at 16%. put the other one had him at 19%.r o kennedy is putting up a far more impressive showing than i would have thought when he first entered the race.
conference at the capitol. i just got off the phone with the president, i talk to him twice today, and after weeks of negotiations, we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement and principle that is worthy of the american people. i expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow, and then voting on it on wednesday. thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the american public. we do not have the full scope of the agreement, as the speaker, noted the bill is still being written as we speak, with the intention of completing it by later today. now, from what nbc news has gathered so far, the deal will to raise the debt limit until 2020, five it will keep it roughly flat while giving a slight boost of funding to defense, and if we are providing a new controversial work r
inning spending, consequential reforms that will rein in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programs. jason: here is what we mow is in the deal: it suspends the debt ceiling until after 2024 election, no increase in non-defense spending for the next fiscal year, and it caps it at 1% the following fiscal year. it also increases defense spending and money for veterans. we re also learning it claws back some unspent covid-19 pandemic funds and cuts nearly $2 the billion in money used to hire new irs agents. it also reportedly expands work requirements for some adults receiving food stamps but no work requirement changes for medicaid. the house republicans are expected to come back to the washington on tuesday and and vote on the bill on wednesday. we ll take it up with congressman brian mast and congresswoman beth van duyne. meanwhile, china has spent the week courting african countries like the democratic republic of congo for rare either minerals
american people. a new fox news poll shows that the president is basing serious competition from democrats. he only captured 62% of the vote against challengers robert f. kennedy jr. and maryanne williamson, and worse, 67% of americans view a biden victory in 2024 as a disaster or setback for america, the media pointing out that biden does face an uphill battle. horrible news, horrible news for joe biden and the cnn poll. while he leads his competitors by a huge margin, 2/3 of all of the american people surveyed, 66% of the public say a biden victory would either be a setback or a disaster for the united states. our cnn poll had kennedy at 20%. we ve had two fox polls out in the last month. one had him at 16%. the other one had him at 19%. kennedy is putting up a far more impressive showing than i would have thought when he first entered the race. with numbers that bad critics say the president isn t doing himself any favors by avoiding the media. it s more than a mon
we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bring you