Session, k he then passed the dt ceiling, the only debt ceiling bill that has hassed passed isth the mccarthy bill which has $4.1 trillion in cuts and is the first significant step towards avoiding default, and then he left tdo become the first speakr in 5o thebe years to address te denecessary se to t in israel oe 75th anniversary of the founding of israel. that s jus t one week in the lie of speaker mccarthy.eake and in the process concern and, by then th way, this congressioa delegationl includes a number om ocdemocrats. so he s working very hard to build a bipartisan momentum inti the direction ofsa real reform. maria: yeah. and nowth i think it s goingo be up to the senate and biden to respond to the reality. maria: and he follows you being the first speaker to do so.st former speaker of the house newt gingrich, great to seesp you. thank you, sir. goo td to see you. maria: have a great sunday, everybody. i ll see you again tomorrow. detour yeah. school isn t gonna
Coming up, senator ron johnson on his findings of biden family influence peddling and the impact to the america s national security. then anthony if blink. en s fingerprints are all over the spies who lied letter suggesting the laptop was russian disinformation right before the presidential election. coming up, former direct director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on blinken s efforts to the mislead the american people and its impact. it s all right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and we begin this sunday morning with president biden s re-election campaign just as america dances with default on its debt. the president announced this week that the he will run again in 2024 just before house republicans passed a debt ceiling bill on wednesday which will raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion while also rolling back spending to the fiscal 2022 levels. the bill is now headed to the senate where it faces an uncertain future. president biden has already
Threatened to the veto the bill saying any spending cut attached to a debt ceiling raise is a non-starter. i m happy to meet with mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. that s not negotiable. i tellth president we can sit down, no parameters, the only thing i would tell him is no clean debt ceiling s going to pass the house. maria: the national department is currently at $31.7 trillion with interest alone at over $500 billion. both numbers simply not sustainable. joining me right now in this sun morning ebb collusive interview is texas republican senator, ted cruz, a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, it s always a pleasure. thanks so much for joining me. good morning, maria. thanks for having me. maria: so let s start with the debt bill because we ve got lots to talk to you about this morning. what happens to this bill which passed in the house when it reaches the senate? well, it ll be up to chuck schumer whether to bring it up for a
Ceiling. someone he should listen to the. president biden should listen to joe biden. joe biden in 2011 was the vice president. maria: yeah. republicans had taken the house. republicans held a hard line on the debt the ceiling, and joe biden, then-vice president, went and personally negotiated the deal that became the budget control act, a bill that was designed to cut over $2 trillion in our debt. it was the most significant fiscal restraint ever passed if modern times. and you know who didn t engage in this kind of irresponsible fear among orerring? barack obama, the president. he sent joe in and said let s reach a deal. maria: yeah. that joe biden from 2011 needs to come back, not the guy they got right now locked in the basement and a white house that s being run by 25-year-old radicals who figure, heck, just let it all default, what do we care? these are little marxists with no experience in the real world. we need to bring back the joe
To or not. i ve got to say, i want to commend house republicans. they have common straited bold leadership. demonstrated bold leadership. they brought conference together. it wasn t easy, there are lots of factions. they have a very narrow majority in the house, yet house conservatives plaid an active role in drafting this bill, and it takes major steps to reining in spending, it takes major accepts to reining in the regulations that are killing jobs across this country, it takes major steps to getting people back to work. this bill is an exercise in being responsible. and, maria, i ve got to say the contrast could not be starker. the republicans in the house are responsible, and joe biden, what is he saying? he s saying i will not talk, i will not negotiate, i will not give many on anything, think how, any way. and what is happening is joe biden is gambling. joe biden needs to stop playing roulette with the american economy and with the american