progress, it would take us backwards. i just want to be clear you are not saying that th administration is unwilling to have spending conversation with the speaker it is just that y all don want to do it in connectio with the debt ceiling. i ve been in the middle of lot of spending fights in this town, i ve worked for the hous parisian s committee for many, many, years. so a lot of this is not new. i have heard it before where people try to extrac things that are, frankly unrelated to the issue at hand avoiding default is a basi responsibility of congress republican democrati presidents have all said, we should not use political brick man ship when it comes to this issue. it is a basic responsibility the world is watching, and t risk economic calamity and t ask to exchange that for cuts, to meals on wheels, veterans medical care, education, to us
by the police force in 2022. what are you doing to stem gun violence in your city, and wha can washington journal what do you want washingto to-do? my message for washington i very clear, we need to pass an assault weapons ban in congress, we need to pass background checks in congress we need to pass red flag law in congress. that is what we need to do t make sure that we can keep our city safe. and, as a mayor, we are doin everything we can in cleveland to keep our community safe we are using $10 million o american rescue plan funds t create a neighborhood safety endowment fund to invest in proven strategies that we know can reduce crim in our city. we also are paying our officer more negotiated the largest pa increase in modern history and our city to boost officer pa to attract and retain officers in our city but we have
reporting in the washingto post today that the white hous is having conversations abou whether or not they ca unilaterally raise the deb ceiling. is that something that the white house could do, or mus it be raised by congress, an act of congress? claude at the end of the day, i think it has to be raised by congress, and i am aware o theoretical papers out there invoking the 14th amendment, and a trillion dollar coin the reality is, i tend to thin that that would not be accepte as legitimate or credible by international markets, which means, in other words, you would get some of th unfortunate effects of a downgrade, and a default in other, words saying are interest rates spiking so, in the end, congress needs to eat its vegetables. congress needs to raise th debt ceiling, speaker kevi mccarthy, who promised 1 different things to 15 different groups of republicans,
raising the debt ceiling unilaterally, how could th president do that? so, jonathan, we have a lon record and we ve spoken to thi several times. we believe in congress has t do its constitutional duty and avoid a default in thi country. we have always paid our bills, we are a country who pays ou bills. that is a responsible thing to do, congress and a bipartisa way to three times with th last president, and they nee to do it again one of the things speaker mccarthy is saying is that h won t sit down and negotiate he said he would, but we haven t talked since earlier this year. now that speaker mccarthy ha released his debt ceiling plan why won t the president si down and negotiate with speake mccarthy the last we checked get sealing and making sure we don t default on our debt an we risk the full faith of th united states has been taken off the table. especially not by hous republicans. as you mentioned, 320 page bil that says, will avoid default,
there is widespread popula dissatisfaction with the government among the highest levels we ve ever seen reporte in the united states, an attitudes towards violence this is what really concerns me right now, one in four americans have a permissiv attitude of violence towards a government 25% of americans in and a survey from th university of chicago, that very alarming. that shows you got condition that allow something like this to happen. so what about the spark? when we saw the civil conflict throughout history and throughout the world, it s often those conditions are right, and there s a spark, an that s usually some episode of violence what concerns me is, right now we re seeing the highest level of threats to violence against the public service, public servants, rather, that we ve seen in a very long time the chatter about attacks on public officials is generall at the highest levels it s bee since 9/11 you re seeing a lot of threats against supreme court justices members of con