correspondent chat pergram followed this all day and came to a head moments ago. good evening, chad. good evening bret. the house passed 217 to 215 and four gop defection and the bill wasn t ready to pass last night and nancy mace called the bill weak and she s a yes today. that s a pretty dramatic change and position. we had a very productive meeting because until then, a lot of us have not been included in the conversation so to get that commitment from him and working with us on balancing the budget and members force mccarthy to alter the bill in order to win their votes and one change moving up the date for healthy people to find work if they want to qualify for food aid. in the midnight seance that republicans conducted, mccarthy preserved tax breaks for ethanol, corn state members ballinged. we ll not allow balked. we ll not allow them to budget it on the back of american farmers. but tim burchette. we re increasing the debt $1.5 trillion over ten year
the problem. more than 80 dais, he s ignored the american public. he has to negotiate now or we raise the debt limit and take our bill. curious for this and have to continuously raise the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy with a big win and chad pergram joining us from capitol hill and this vote passing and a lot of people, especially democrats on the senate side that didn t think the numbers were there, wasn t going toed a and you happen it is all like you say about the math, the numbers and he had them, had to negotiate a bit but this is a big moment for the speaker. you don t get style points here on capitol hill. the calling card of former house speaker nancy pelosi was always passing big bills with a narrow margin. this is the first really big bill, something of substance that kevin mccarthy dealt with