officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
night! good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle. less than two hours ago, the house passed a bipartisan plan to head off a disastrous default which the treasury warned could come as soon as monday. it will clear the house at a critical time for our economy with the risk of recession still a concern. 314 members voted in favor of the bill. how does 17 voted against it. among the no votes, 71 republicans including members of the freedom caucus. but they were not alone. 46 democrats were also in a no column. before the vote took place, several members from both sides went to the floor to make their case before the bell. thank goodness for joe biden s legislative skill. we will not go over the edge. and they were prepared to take us over the edge! the bill contains spending cuts that take a step in the right direction towards restoring fiscal sanity in washington. we need to avert a default that would stop checks to our seniors, benefits for our veterans. ho
all right, good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are watching right now debate wrap up at this hour, as the house gets ready to vote on the crucial debt ceiling deal. that s the speaker of the house speaking right there. earlier today, the republican proposal passed a key procedural vote, but it only passed with the help from democrats. it did not have the votes to pass it on their own, after 29 republicans defected. as of now, the bill is being discussed on the floor. it s expected to pass within the hour, despite that fairly significant republican opposition. this debt ceiling vote has been a crucial task for house republicans. for the moment, they took control in january, the big question was how the maga caucus, the majority of whom, let s remember, voted for trump s coup on january 6th, after the sacking of the capital, how are those folks going to actually govern? empowered with one of the two houses of congress. one half of one third of the federal governme
tonight, on a two hour edition of the hudson show, breaking details on the debt limit detail, we can hear from democratic hardly greg insider just got briefed on the white house we, also debated with u.s. experts. and special counsel jan s nick, eminem and the alvin bragg both of new potentially damning evidence against who else donald de trump and their respective cases, and setting the record straight on one henry a kissinger. as he marks his 100th birthday, will it because dark and very bloody legacy. good evening, i m mehdi hassan we have breaking news tonight we have what they are calling a deal, just a short time ago president biden s post about that debt limit agreement in principle reaches weekend when his administration and the republican leadership in the house. we ve got good news, we just spoke with speaker mccarthy, and we have reached a bipartisan budget agreement that we are ready to move to the full congress. and i think it s a really important step forwar
as the republican primary field continues to expand, i can t help but wonder are we about to see a 2016 repeat, with trump gliding to the gop nomination? blas, former labor secretary and top economist robert reich is here to help us understand the new debt limit deal, and whether democrats can get behind it, whether they should get behind it. and, democratic presidential candidate marianne williams will also join us live to discuss her 2024 run, pushing president biden to the left and what she thinks this candidacy will end differently for her. good evening, i m mehdi hassan. crisis averted, or so they say. earlier this evening, president biden addressed the nation detailing the debt limit deal brokered in principle between his administration and top congressional republicans. the agreement prevents the worst possible crisis, a fish default, for the first time in our nation s history an economic recession, retirement accounts devastated millions of jobs lost. also predicts