members voted against bills they support, same cast from january, who tried to derail the speaker. what point are they trying to make, if any? let s find out. joining us is speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, from the great state of california. thank you for joining us, mr. speaker. why? why are these members voting with democrats to keep gop bills from coming up for a vote? speaker mccarthy: i m not sure. trey, we missed you serving with us in congress. republicans control the house by five votes, democrats control senate and white house. less than 5% of members voted with democrats to deny us from bringing conservative bills to the floor. if you can t bring floors to the bill, you are turning the house over to democrats. that is why we ve got to come together, we have no choice but to be able to have that conservative voice for the american people. we have been successful from the parents bill of rights, from the investigation, from passing a bill to make us energy inde
this is the sunday show. this week, they are service in this marks 100 days under maga control led by speaker kevin mccarthy allegedly. it is also the bodies firs week back following an extende break, and their list of priorities continues to grow guns, abortion, leaks of classified documents, it may b the most important, the debt ceiling is the nation s abilit to borrow money to pay its bills is set to run ou sometime this summer according to reporting fro politico s, speaker mccarthy will be holding a conference call today with his republican caucus to finalize a proposa that would raise the deb ceiling for roughly one year but there is a catch mccarthy s budget proposal i reportedly i wish list of no starters for democrats including across the board cut to discretionary spending, climb back unspent covid relie funds, and stricter work requirements on programs lik food stamps. speaker mccarthy is expected t lay all this out tomorrow in a speech about the debt limit at the n
committees. we surpassed that. nondefense below 2022 numbers. defense, rightfully so, we added money to it. republican lindsey graham wants to spend more. secure victories, wor requirements for welfare reform, have to make it into law. we made president biden sign things he never would sign into law and said it was a red line, that is what we did when we stuck together. trey: yeah, some people just have a hard time claiming victory for reasons i will never understand. i will end like i started, the speaker makes a little bit more money than the average members in the house, it ain t worth it. thank you for coming on, speaker mccarthy. thank you. trey: coming up, former president donald trump indicted in a 38-count indictment and will appear in court in miami on
republican majority want to do is cut non defense discretionary spending, and on of the things they want to d is put requirements, wor requirements on food stamps. i said in the intro that these were non starters fo democrats. can you confirm that this is what i can tell you is that we need to hold a vote on monday, when we return to congress on a clean debt ceiling. why? because that is a fundamenta responsibility it is one we debuted three times under donald trump when he ran up a quarter of al the deficit that we face i this country and that is what people do a responsible bill payers in thi country. every single day that s what we have to do as congress we are willing to obey conversations about the budget