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That the threat on the african american community because of gun violence and other communities is also a threat to them as law enforcement officers. it should be a top priority. secondly, voters need to continue to pay attention. 2024 election is going to be key. 2023 election in louisiana, arkansas, i mean louisiana, kentucky, mississippi is important. policy makers must do their jobs but voters must change the policy makers when they don t do the job. derek johnson, president and ceo of the naacp. we will have to leave it there. thank you for your time. thank you. the united states could be less than three weeks away from defaulting on its debts, yes. the white house doesn t appear any closer to a agreement with republican lawmakers to avoid economic disaster. or are they? i will talk to heather bush from the white house presidents next steps for the clock taking. first, y all, our bestie is here. richard louis has the day s other big stories. hey, richard. hey, simone. ....
Congress has already appropriated and the government has already spent. whether or not we can borrow to pay back our bills. the president wants to keep that separate from future spending. the president put out his budget back in march. it would cut the deficit by three trillion over the next decade. he is willing to have those types of conversations, but not under the threat of default. as he says repeatedly, the united states cannot and should not and will not be a dead beat nation. congress needs to do its duty and increase the debt ceiling. president biden will not support legislation that is at a clean debt limit increase. it s been clear that these should be separate discussions and he s also started the conversation at staffer meetings and has been meeting with leaders to move this conversation forward because of the urgency of how close we are to the moment when the u.s. treasury may not be able to pay the bills that are due. heather, nbc news reporting ....
social security payments. social security payments. social security payments. a number of things on the chopping block here. heather, the time i have left for you, we have conversations here on msnbc about this particular issue. i have long since that it does look like the president is going to negotiate on the budget and not on the debt ceiling. but speaker mccarthy has not presented a budget. is it not dangerous to negotiate with speaker mccarthy with no budget on the table from him? it seems you are all doing it piecemeal. essentially, negotiating with folks who have threatened to take the u.s. economy hostage, i m talking about republicans. this has been a challenge. the president put out his budget back in march. he s been clear that he is put out a budget that will be fiscally responsible on top of already reducing the deficit by 1.7 trillion dollars under his watch, his budget looking forward with lower the deficit by three trillion over the next ....
The next meeting is set for this tuesday between the president and congressional leaders. do you expect a final decision to come from that meeting? we certainly need a decision to come soon, secretary yellen has said that the debt limit could be reached as early as june 1st. this is a difficult date to calibrate exactly what date it s going to happen. we never know exactly how much revenue will come in or exactly what that balance will be. but it is certainly coming up quickly. there is urgency to getting this sorted. but of course this is something that congress has done time and time again since 1960. they have increased the debt ceiling 78 times. they did three clean debt ceiling increases during the prior administration. that is what the president has been asking them to do again. in any event, heather, let me spitball with you. i know how it works at the white house. you ve got to have a contingency plan. is the president still considering the 14th amendment ....