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any deal will needs to be approved by a divided congress, with a vote expected on wednesday. mccarthy spoke in the past hour. ijust got out i just got out of over the president. i spoke to him twice today. after weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. we still have a lot of work to do. but i believe this is an agreement in principle that is worthy of the american people. it has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rain in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programmes. there is a lot more within the bill. we still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it. i do want to take a moment, though, and thank gary graves and patrick mchenry for their work on this. and for all the work that we re going to continue to do. and i know you will have a lot of questions. i m not going to take them tonight. out of respect i to breathe our me ....
To attacks like this. a hospital in dnipro destroyed by a russian missile that air defences this time failed to stop. james landale, bbc news, kyiv. a quick rehab after breaking news coming in that the democrats and principal and the democrats and republicans have agreed to the debt seal. it would raise the bar limit and they would be some cuts to federal spending, about $650 billion over the next decade according to the new york times and there does appear to be something in there for both sides so we are hearing some news and some tweets from republicans don t appear to be happy, they wanted deeper cuts and we will be ....
Filibuster. he needs to also lean, i believe, on his executive authority and say, if you are going to get in the way, we are going to find other ways to do this. that s aoc going straight at joe biden there. that s what i read in that statement. the president, who i believe needs to be for forceful on the filibuster. joe biden, senate institutionalist. wary about i think chaing the filibuster. joe manchin, many others oppose it. i am going to put air quotes around institutionalists, because all of them decided youa confuse days ago that the filibuster doesn t matter when it came to raising the debt seal. i agreed with that move. if it was good enough for raising the debt ceiling why suspect it good enough for securing voting rights for all the americans in the democracy? exactly. why isn t the president more ....
Vote that democrats were putting on to maybe left the debt ceiling has been delayed as senator van hollen told us 40 minutes ago you have senate democrats meeting behind closed doors to go over the offer from the republican senator mitch mcconnell that could maybe mean an end to the standoff. i want to bring in nbc s leann caldwell. what political position is mitch mcconnell in? a lot of people look at him especially on the right he is always negotiating for a position of strength. in this case it sounds like the democratic discussion about the filibuster and going nuclear for this carve out for the debt seal could have spooked mcconnell? it could have. just the recap. we were approaching a serious deadline and grinkmanship up here on capitol hill over the debt limit. we are just over a week away before the country could default. as you mentioned, they have ....
On tuesday, 19 republicans joined democrats to pass a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. hours later, democrats approved a $3.5 billion budget resolution focused on so-called human infrastructure. passing that resolution is the first step to cracking the actual bill. that will not be ready until probably october. both measures, the bipartisan bill and the budget resolution are headed to the house. it is preparing to cut its recess short and return to washington august 23rd. house speaker nancy pelosi has beened a adamant. no bill unless through reconciliation. that plan hit a snag. a group of house moderate democrats vowed to block the budget resolution. they insists it has to be signed into law first. this is complicated further by the deadline to raise the debt seal e ceiling. senate democrats did not include ....