they are great, if you can get them through. but even if biden did sign them. i m saying we have such a structural problem right now, that we do not seem to have the ability under the system to sit down and say, okay. that is not doing it. that will not doe it. we have to put some kind of a cap on when we re doing, if you have elections every two year, one congress can blow ouc off another. we have crossed the rubicon. the idea that you could never go back across it again. at some point the worse case, plays out at some point, we do go off the proverbial cliff, we re paying the price for it, 31 trillion, soon to be 35 trillion, the numbers are so mind boggling, at-this-point maybe we re numb to them.
ken buck of colorado is one of them he says that kevin mccarthy should be worried not the house ship. joining us now consummate think you for joining us on the topic of this debt ceiling bill. you all sent to bill earlier you will support the majority of your party supported and that bill was a tenure freeze and this bill is essentially a one year freeze. the president signs a bill back says he wants a clean bill. your speaker, the leader of your party since a bill back that s little bit different than the first one is not called a compromise? is not what americans want? americans don t want four chilean dollars of debt and that s what this bill does gives americans for chilean dollars more of debt. our national debt in january of 2025 will be $35 trillion that s unsustainable. it s unsustainable and that s what republicans in the house
0k, certainly going to be interesting what happens but sophia, thank you for that analysis. we can speak to congressman ken buck, a republican from the state of colorado. that evening to you. you have come, of course, from the spout on the house floor and either voted against this deal, why? there are 4 trillion against this deal, why? there are 4 trillion reasons - against this deal, why? there are 4 trillion reasons to - against this deal, why? there are 4 trillion reasons to vote | are 4 trillion reasons to vote against this deal, the debt in the united states will rise by $4 trillion from 31 trillion to 35 trillion, absolutely on acceptable. it cannot sustain ourselves if we continue to add that much debt to our ledger. i that much debt to our ledger. i want to tell you what some of your republican colleagues have said about this deal today. speaker mccarthy, who negotiated this agreement said that this bail is a small step in putting the country in the right track. we know that
families in my state, i m not going to support a bill that does not do anything to deal with inflation. we are going to let s say this passes, the debt will go up four plus trillion dollars and then in 25 have the conversation we ll be at 35 trillion, it gets harder and harder and harder to do this. do it today. john: i keep talking about a time when the debt was 5.7 trillion and we were talking about paying it off. oh, yes, long for the old days. senator, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. anita: a long time ago there, john. john: it wasn t that long ago, 1999. seems forever ago. anita: fair enough. one hurdle after another for house speaker kevin mccarthy, he locked in the debt deal and pushed it through the house, but will it cost him the speakership? aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill where some republicans are already calling for change and aishah, how serious of an
rise by $4 trillion, from 31 trillion to 35 trillion, absolutely unacceptable, we cannot continue to sustain ourselves if we continue to add that much debt to our ledger. i that much debt to our ledger. i want to tell you what some of your republican colleagues have said about this deal today. speaker mccarthy, who negotiated this agreement, said this bill is a small step on putting the country on the right track. we know it will now head to the senate and a republican senator said this bill provides the first reduction in non defence discretionary sending in a decade, a $1.5 trillion reduction. do you agree? no, that s nonsense. reduction. do you agree? no, that s nonsense. when - reduction. do you agree? i457, that s nonsense. when you add $4 trillion, you don t do that by reducing spending by 1.5 trillion. they know this doesn t reduce spending at all, frankly. they know this bill isn t going to be accepted by the american people, there is already a huge amount of pushback, and th