deadline is june 1st. who has time for a break? well, apparently conversations are not productive, at least that s how the gop is framing it. here was the republicans lead negotiator, congressman garrett graves who walked out of the room early today. the house passed the strong bill. it has great savings, and it s responsible and puts us on a path. until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. speaker mccarthy says the pause is not fatal, and the white house says an agreement remains possible, but it does concede, the white house does, both sides are still pretty far apart, perhaps as far apart as some of the more progressive senate democrats who say the president should ignore a vote all together, and raise the ceiling by himself, with authority, they argue, is granted by the 14th amendment. and the house freedom caucus which tweeted today t
The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
think you tinker with this stuff, get in a game of chicken at the last minute. that s the president and democrats in the senate who made the choice, we think it s not very wise. how do you feel about the default if it comes to that, who would you blame, would you blame the white house or the senate? the people who aren t doing their job. we ve done ours. let me ask you about the 14th amendment. some democrats have argued that the 14th amendment gives the president the authority that the u.s. s debt shall not be questioned is what it says in that amendment. do you think the president has the authority to raise it on his own? i don t think so. i think there are provisions in law that provide a very serious penalty for executive branch officials who spend without authority of congress, and that s what that amounts to. i doubt you ll find many people in the administration who want to do that at the end of the day. if speaker mccarthy relents to a deal that you don t like,