victims of recent mass shottings testifying before congress today. we heard from the mother of 21-year-old zaire goodman who was wounded and survived the mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store last month which was motivated by racist hate. she described her son as pure joy and calling the person who shot him a domestic terrorism and says domestic terrorism occurs is because america is inherently violent. my son has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg caused by an exploding bullet from an ar-15. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying today does not move to you act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help clean my son s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. we then heard from dr. roy guerrero, the only pediatrician in uvalde who described the horror that he witnessed two weeks ago in the city s emergency room. two children whose bodies had been
bags. i saw more courage today from those families than we have ever seen from congressman biggs or the scores of republicans and republican-adjacent democrats who have sat on their hands for decades. i think this is a gut-check moment for these politicians and for political leaders across the country. can you really look in the eyes of those families and tell them nothing can be done? can you riley sit across from those children, from mia, those traumatized children and tell them that keeping them safe just isn t a priority for you? can you really assure us that your obsession with easy access to guns, guns on every corner a, that experiment we ve been trying forever is the only answer? can you continue to tell this country full of communities like mine that have been ripped apart by gun violence that the most urgent crisis you are elected to solve teachers with they/them pronounce and reading red fish, blue fish and history lessons
no agreement. nor is there an agreement on a house republican push for a much smaller plan made up of spending cuts alone. if all else fails, we may end up with an idea floated by the top senate republican, mitch mcconnell. we laid it out for you. three separate votes between now and the next elections to raise the nation s debt by $2.5 trillion, and there would be $1 trillion in spending cuts and a special congressional panel to shore up entitlements, and the up side supposedly for republicans is keeping the issue alive for another year and blaming the president, who, by the way, is not ruling it out. it s constructive to say if washington operates as usual and cannot get anything done, let s at least avert armageddon. that s i m glad that people are serious about the consequences of default. i want to bring in my colleagues from the white house. dan, to you first. the president says the negotiations have not been ugly, as some have claimed, and he still has hope for a