to vote no. we go through this dance all the time. it s dangerous. everybody i serve with understands that this could be catastrophic if we don t pass it. the government can t pay veterans benefits and maybe social security because it can t borrow and lacks sufficient calf. the gop is threatening a filibuster because democrats want to pass the big social spending plan by themselves. a single republican vote on spending measures. they think we should have the raise the debt limit for them. it s not something we re going to do. if they re going to spend the money on their own, they re going to pay for it on their own. it s ridiculous to think that republicans are responsible to pay through debt for the spending that they intend to do on their own. the gop says democrats should hook the debt creeling to the
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), a crucial moderate Democrat, has expressed reservations over the mounting costs associated with implementing President Joe Biden's legislative agenda.
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the domestic side which democrats want. that two-year suspension. debt ceiling is huge, it takes a catastrophic crisis off the table until after the election. in terms of offsets, that s been the big back-and-forth, spending hawks want a lot of spending increases offset. about $75 billion is where negotiators ended up. one thing republicans are seizing on is at least a verbal agreement or acknowledgement from speaker nancy pelosi that they will not seek to put in poison pills, as they call them, into their spending measures, including restricting how the administration could move money around for the wall, other issues that they care about on the policy side as well. that s the top lines of the agreement. again, nothing is official until the president signs off. we re told the president has been briefed on this deal. watch every utterance, including the ones he s making right now and in the days ahead. that will determine whether or not this goes through. right now negotiators on the h
money with other spending measures. the fight could complicate lawmakers approving hurricane relief or the need for hurricane disaster need could make the border wall battle easy as pie. shepard: look at the dow now. the overnight here s the reason this is of interest. overnight all the signs were this was going to be a big day. all the trends were up. the early morning numbers were great. the early morning reality was good and then all of a sudden. we plunged more than 600 points yesterday but the big story monday was oil prices. it s a huge story today because the oil markets have closed for the day and the numbers are eye-popping and now historic. the fox business network s correspondent reporting. reporter: if you look you will see prices settling at $59,