the time is ticking for congress to take action, because it s congress that has an exit constitutional responsibility here. they swore an oath to and the 14th amendment of that constitution says, the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be question, which presumably means, you need to pay the debt. june 5th is only nine days from now. the house of representatives has adjourned for the long memorial day weekend. republican leadership said, they will provide 24 hours notice before scheduling voting days, and addressing the potential default. while some republicans might just be hoping to extract a greater cuts to the social safety net in exchange for not crushing the american economy, with others, the motivation is less clear. take, for example, the chaos caucus, a group of the most disruptive members of the republican caucus right now. the chaos caucus, many of whom are members of the freedom caucus, succeeded and complicating and stalling kevin mccarth
how conservatives and liberals think this country should raise and spend its money is a very, very valid discussion to have. sadly, that s not the one we re having. thanks to both of you, and solar and political economy in the american enterprise institute. he s the author of a dream is not dead, but populism could kill it. jennifer reuben is an opinion writer at the washington post, and msnbc political analyst host of the new podcast, jen reuben s green room. all right, straight ahead, we ll continue our breaking news coverage of the debt ceiling negotiations, which are ongoing right now. i ll be joined by congressman lloyd doggett, democrat of texas, and a member of the budget committee, as well as congressman adam smith, democrat of washington, and ranking member of the armed services committee. another hour of velshi begins right now. of velshi begin right now. and good morning to you, it is saturday may the 27th, i m ali velshi, the full faith and credit of the united
velshi banned book club s almost here with an author who s been on our wish list for since we establish the club well over a year ago. in the next hour, i will pcp with pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel maus. it s written using two distinct narrative. maus depicts the true horrors that spiegelman s perris face as young jewish people in world war ii, through their eventual liberation from naughty concentration camps years later. published in the early 1990s, maus it s nothing short of a cultural and historical touchstone, making its removal from an eighth grade reading curriculum in tennessee just last year even more shocking. in preparation for this confirmation with spiegelman on such a crucial book, we asked you, member of the velshi banned book club, how and when you first learned about the holocaust. many people named books about
why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff? it s not wise or healthy. unquote. reading about historical atrocities is not promoting, them it s creating awareness. it s how we learn. the school boards decision thrust mcmahon county tennessee into the national spotlight, a physical representation of extreme censorship, and an answer to the question, how far can this go? removing maus may not have been the first stone cast in this ongoing ideological battle, but it was certainly one of the biggest stones cast. there will be from the public was swift. public figures, educators, and holocaust organizations condemned that removal. maus shocked to the top of amazon s best seller list, a professor at north carolina s davidson college offered a free course on the book for the eighth graders in mcmahon county, and the velshi banned book club was created. despite the public outcry, maus has not been added back to that curriculum. the irony, of course, is that that discomfort is th