including line reminding him to thank the japanese prime minister for hosting him. todd: reminder to thank the audience for joining us on friday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. clock ticks toward default, which could throw our country into recession and upset the global economy. the president says negotiating teams are making progress and he is confident they will come to a bipartisan agreement before the deadline. alexandria hoff has more. alexandria: the president did receive a briefing this morning from his negotiating team on capitol hill. steady progress is being made and he asked the team to keep pushing forward. house democrats are concerned about what an agreement might look like. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impended june 1 deadline, it is important all options are pursued in the ev
japan. leaders unveiling sanctions against russia as the war in ukraine continues. did you hear this? ukrainian president zelenskyy planning to join the summit in person on sunday. you see the zoom on president biden and leader of japan, that picture was taken just moments ago. wired magazine publishing growing piece on pete buttigieg, we don t know how he s spending tax dollars we give to the government, but he loves, beer, god and electric mustang. ashley: joe concha is here. ooh, spacious! or, a cambria hotel downtown
people have applied in for the 1,000 new positions. they will be doing background checks and processing applications of up to five million illegal immigrants who can now seek green cards and avoid deportations. conservatives say it s one more reason to oppose the move. this is once again government usurping power to invest in itself as opposed to investing in america, in americans and the private sector and again, immigration reform is something we have to deal with. it s something we have to resolve. but the way to resolution in washington always seems to begin and end with spending tax dollars. and in fairness that goes for republican presidents, too. after 9/11 the size of the federal government grew tremendously under president bush. in just a couple of years the number of total contract employees went up by 2.5 million. the homeland security department wag crated which included the
$40 million for salaries. this is government usurping power to invest in itself than in americans. immigration reform is something we have to deal with. it s something we have to resolve. but the way to resolution in washington always seems to begin and end with spending tax dollars. reporter: the size of the federal government is often a political football. presidents from both parties have said they can run it better than their predecessor. the era of big government is over. reporter: president clinton did trim the federal government. it was under 4.55 mill 5million took office. then 9/11 happened. you may not like the fact that this particular executive order or this particular legislation or how those authorities are used, but those authorities are there. and i think they are important