democrats are happy to use it as a second attempt to say we need universal mail-in voting. we can t check ids. people can t come to the polls safely. that s what happened when legislatures were usurped through emergency powers and state across the country n 2020. what do you think they might be willing to do in 22. of course, you are 100 percent right. the democratic party is pushed by marxist ideology. i will continue to say it no matter what. it s not a socialist ideology. they believe in that too. it s worse than that everything they propose is about centralized government and centralized power. we are talking today about the potential government shut down for a day or two. you think the sky is falling, right? most of us are social security medicaid checks go out. military continues to be paid about. 17% of the government, i was once told by a former speaker of the house, whose name paul ryan shall be nameless, that said, you shut down our economy for a year, and that s righteous
grips with. the republicans need a replace plan. you just can t repeal. you have to know what you ll replace it with and they need to talk more specifically what that might be and i m happy to go thereรง if you want. that goes to your point earlier there s no replacement. in terms of deficit and debt, there s the point that the cost of actually covering health care is a third of what mitt romney s tax cuts would cost. so if you re talking about fiscal prudence it would seem to be talking one way and walking the other. there s not a party of fiscal responsibility. the truth is government has grown too big, promised too much, waited too the long restructure. we have to constrain spending. we need more revenues. how we do that matters. it s about three-part spending reduction, one part revenue. we need to achieve that through recapturing and control of the budget, reforming social security medicaid and medicare, moving to universal health care that s appropriate, affordable and sus
gee, think it s taken a long time to reach a compromise here. but from what you re hearing who is getting the better end of the bargain? the republicans are, alex. they changed the entire nature of the debate. we won t see a debt ceiling increase again without deep cuts. democrats are concerned about the cuts that will be passed out this week in order to extend our debt ceiling but also in the months to come as committees come together and try to find more savings out of entitlement programs and mandatory spending. they were hoping that in exchange for any look in entitlement programs like medicare and social security medicaid, there would be it would be triggered, failure to act would trigger trepidation along with cuts to entitlement spending. now it will be defense spending cuts and cuts to those programs.
three hours from now. i m joined by amy starter. good morning, alex. gee, think it s taken a long time to reach a compromise here. but from what you re hearing who is getting the better end of the bargain? the republicans are, alex. they changed the entire nature of the debate. we won t see a debt ceiling increase again without deep cuts. democrats are concerned about the cuts that will be passed out this week in order to extend our debt ceiling but also in the months to come as committees come together and try to find more savings out of entitlement programs and mandatory spending. they were hoping that in exchange for any look in entitlement programs like medicare and social security medicaid, there would be it would be triggered, failure to act would trigger trepidation
tremendous error by this lack of leadership and this rambling around on this critical issue. however, it looks like there could be action in the senate sometime today, joining me now from washington, democratic congressman john yarmouth. good morning, thank you for joining us. good morning, alex. you are at the same camera where luke was moments ago. he s given us up to the minute changes and amendments and little tiny pieces of moving the needle in either direction. if that s what s going on right now? what are you hearing? well, we re pretty much as much in the dark as most everybody, and that s one of the astounding things about this whole process is that very few people know what s going on. two and three person negotiation and it makes it hard to kind of assess the possibility for any outcome. i do know that s what s been reported this morning, causes a great deal of problems for the democratic caucus in the house if there s a process established which could result in acro