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republicans about what should be in any compromise. the devil is always in the details and the two sides are still pretty far apart on some of those details. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what is going on behind the scenes but we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn with the biden administration perspective. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the white house called a lid before 5:00 p.m. with no deal and earlier today the press shop held its last scheduled briefing before tuesday, meaning, as things stand, the american people are set to spend four of the remaining seven days before the economy could go off a cliff without getting questions answered. and some are coming from within the president s party. and they are making progress. i want to be clear that the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not abou ....
Negotiations between the president and speaker for weeks. but now oppose the byproduct. i think if the speaker negotiates that with the president the speaker will find out a lot of republicans won t be agreeing with the speaker. the g.o.p. may need democrats to vote yes if too many republicans defect. but democrats may not help. kevin mccarthy needs to understand that he is not entitled to votes from a party that he does not belong to. in the talks, democrats aim to freeze spending at this year s levels. republicans demand the government reverted to precovid numbers. the pandemic is over. so why would you lock in the highest bought of spending. but republicans still want additional money for the pentagon. bret, some tea leaves, the house is out until there is a bill to vote on. but fox learned that the g.o.p. congressional baseball team reserved the team s practice field for next wednesday and thursday. if there s a deal a practice could signal when the house returns to v ....