there live. with eight days to go with a possible default, wall street is getting nervous again. stocks down again. will the markets get washington to act? welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s cut to the chase. what we re hearing in washington with chad pergram who has more. chad? good afternoon. kevin mccarthy reiterated today that people should not worry about their stocks. the path to an accord is unclear. the sides talks again today at the white house. i don t think there will be a default. i don t know how you blame republicans. we re the only ones that acted. so if the american public didn t if they get rewarded for not taking an action and reward ago problem, the democrats will win that award every day. mccarthy says he trusts janel yellen that early june is the deadline. some conservatives are not sold. some down played an economic catlism. there s not some catastrophic day of june 1. oh, we ve hit the limit. markets will get jittery. they go up and do
by our president as we join with him in promising that help is on the way. this is one of the most consequential pieces of legislation we have passed in decades. and you know what we can show america that we can get things done to make their lives better. this is what it looks like. three democrats basically run the levers of government in washington now, the congressional leaders as you heard there and president biden. and on this they re united on the import of landmark legislation to fund covid testing, vaccines, and health care while trying to juice the economy and fortify budgets around the nation. they have bipartisan wind at their back. fully 75% of americans and 59% of republican voters back this biden/schumer/pelosi project. in other words, millions of trump supporters now back president biden s first big priority in office while their own elected leaders seem out of step. not a single republican elected official voted for the bill today in the house. the preside
work to show congressional leader here and america where the points of intersection are. the areas of agreement between democrats and republicans. it s very reasonable. it s what we did during the infrastructure debate. our bill became law. we stand at the ready. we ll let the negotiations proceed. we expect they go well. if they don t, we re here to offer plan b. neil: i take it you re not keen on the use of the 14th amendment. that backses the full faith of the united states debt. you don t this that that is an option? that would timing, brian, you re making the same point. even if that were feasible the president made this point. we don t have the time to run that play. you know, the bottom line is this. we have to that june 1 date is coming up. we can t delay. we have to deal with making sure
of science and useful arts in the constitution. come on, everybody, what s not to love. just trying to change the world here people. we re going to change the world. infrastructure can cool. isn t that what we do nowadays? steve: look at that infrastructure is cool. critics on twitter not kind. somebody reserved to as this commented, cringe inducing. harmeet dhillon had a twitter no mask? what about omicron as the president mispronounced it the other day and mike han realizing bill nye was propaganda in elementary sky. bill nye political guy online. brian: twitter nasty. ainsley: if they re letting any guy with a mechanical engineering degree weigh in on the infrastructure debate my dad has got some opinions. brian: absolutely. steve: anyway, it s cool. just saying infrastructures is cool according to bill nye.
how serious is this and what is happening in congress about it? first of all i want to say thank you, thank you for being here this evening and working together on this piece of legislation. the infrastructure debate, the debt ceiling debate doesn t tell us anything about how hard it is to be bipartisan in this country. we re doing it, we are working together on the cyber rotational workforce program which will allow the federal government to be better prepared against the threats from china and russia. just last year there were 11 federal agencies hacked by folks associated with china and russia like. it s important. we need a manhattan project in this country to protect our cybersecurity. we are at risk from both china and russia, we are at risk from bad actors in whatever bill does which we work together in a bipartisan way on his say, let s have people rotate throughout the federal agencies that we have a consistent response that we can meet standards of the