the debt ceiling deal. then white house officials will be briefing democratic members of congress, as we continue to await the actual text of the bill. the sales job will be crucial as biden and mccarthy both have to convince their members that each side is not happy about it. i do expect the there will be democratic support. once we have the ability to actually be fully briefed by the white house. right now, the democrats are very upset. there is nothing in the bill for them, there is not one thing in the bill for democrats. from what i can say, republicans didn t get any of the big things they were asking for. they didn t get massive long term cuts to programs for the poor or middle class. they didn t get the repeal of the presidents signature for renewable energy. they didn t get big, new requirements pushing people out of the medicaid program. we will take a look at what s on the table, but it s pretty clear the president bone crypto most reckless thing that the democ
he told reporters, we don t have text of this bill yet. so it is really coming down to the wire. members will need to be able to review it here pretty soon. and there are there will be a fight with the white house, in the house dems, a 6:30 caucus in the white house and senate dems. and those will hopefully allow the biden administration to really sell this bill. now as for republicans, earlier, today s speaker mccarthy said that he has spoken with senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, and plans to talk to the senate conference at some point today. we don t have details on that quite yet. but their work is really cut out for them and for a little bit of insight into the thinkers from both parties. listen to what they said earlier about all of this process playing out. president biden has delivered a
this deal is being touted as a compromise both from the president and from mccarthy, as well. i want to bring up the debt limit deal framework that we are hearing about. including to your budget deal, your debt limit increase, no changes to medicaid. do you see this as a compromise. as i said, this hasn t been a real negotiation from the start. i am proud of the president for getting into the room, making sure that we held the line on the central programs. some of the early demands of these extremists who have been holding our country hostage have been absolutely devastating. they were talking about cutting social security and medicaid, eviscerating basic social programs of millions of americans depend on. so it looks like, based on what we re hearing from the white house, that they were able to hold the line on those essential programs.
we will take a look at what s on the table, but it s pretty clear the president bone crypto most reckless thing that the democrats were after. i think there will be some that want to support the bill. let s begin, though, with the president back in the white house now this afternoon. ready to nail down the deal speaker mccarthy to keep the u.s. from defaulting. what is the latest we are hearing out of the white house? the president is stopping for about a minute to speak with reporters upon his return here to the white house. he told us that he is going, as he mentioned, to speak with house speaker kevin mccarthy. noah three p m, that call has already started, as they finalize the contours of this deal. the final details of this deal, which will then allow speaker mccarthy to release publicly the 72-hour review process for lawmakers to read it and