coming up, congresswoman anna paulina luna on the oversight committee s next move to prove jo me biden and his family have been influence peddling for decades. then, why she voted against the debt ceiling bill with as well just signed into law by president biden.w it s all right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the very latest on the new debt ceiling bill. the president signed into law this weekend the so-called fiscal responsibility act, an agreement to the raise the debt ceiling while putting some spending caps in place for the upcoming few years. of the deal brokered by the house speaker, ken mccarthy, and president biden kevin mccarthy suspends the debt limit until january 1st, 2025, it holds non-defense spending flat for 2024 and puts a 1% increase cap in non-defense spending in place for fiscal
i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. but we could never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy and the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there is no other way no matter how tough our politics gets, we see each other not as adversaries but as fellow americans. and in some ways this is not surprising at all. you could even look at that oval office address as the real start of his 2024 campaign. i think it is. and it is quite a journey from months of we ll not negotiate over the budget to let s do an oval office address to tout this bill in which we agreed to republican spending caps, we agreed to work requirements. only point is come prom isz and it is being the grown-up and that is the a pillar of his re-election argument. but this was a fairly
When the House passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling on Wednesday night, Republican leaders made a pledge: The legislation was just a “down payment” on reining in the federal budget.
that they don t like some of the things that are in this for reasons of spending caps, that it doesn t save enough. and interestingly, we see people like senator tim scott, the only senator right now running for president, among those no votes. there s also some tea leaf reading for those of us who like to see how republican leadership votes on this. everyone in leadership voted for this bill except for the number three senate republican, john barrasso. that could be something that is interesting to watch as we see what leadership could look like in a kind of post mcconnell era, when and if mcconnell decides to step aside at some point. so, all of that is giving us some nice tea leaf reading here. but, again, it was pretty no drama. because none of these amendment votes, steph, wherever expected to pass. in fact, if any of any of them did, that would ve been really bad news. because it would have meant that this bill would have to go from the center backs of the house, and we almost ce
i also think it was fascinating to watch just how this vote ultimately shook out. we have 36 no votes, as you mentioned. some of those were the most progressive democrats, voting against this, in part, because of the work requirements that were placed on anti poverty programs such as snap benefits. senator fetterman, for example, releasing a statement just in the last few minutes, explaining that is why he voted no on this. that s also true for people like senator elizabeth warren, senator bernie sanders. and then on the republican side of this, you see other right-wing hard-liners also taking a similar stance to what we saw from house freedom caucus members. just earlier this week when they took their vote saying that they don t like some of the things that are in this for reasons of spending caps, that it doesn t save enough. and interestingly, we see people like senator tim scott, the only senator right now running for president, among those no votes. there s also some tea leaf read