one hand you had democrats and president biden s singh raise the debt ceiling without adding any caveats, without any spending cuts, just do a clean raise, but republicans were pushing for some spending cuts, and needed to find some sort of middle ground here and it seems as though they d got to that point where it would raise the debt limit to 2025 which gets us to the next election cycle in exchange for cuts to things like tighter restrictions on some social safety net programmes like food stamps, allowing for more energy permitting which is something we ve seen republicans really being pushed for here. 50 republicans really being pushed for here. , ., here. so president biden and kevin mccarth , here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy. the here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker of here. so president biden and kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the - here. so president biden and kevin i mccar
that enough would vote yes, but are they sure? house democrats are going to make sure that the country does not default. period. full stop. this caucus will remain unified with the president and most importantly with the american people in this fight. house democrats stand poised to help, stand poised to be the adults in the room, and we will ensure that we put this crisis behind us. we have two house lawmakers starting us off today. a republican in mccarthy s inner circle and a democrat who voted no on the deal in the rules committee last night, and that right there is where we begin. joining me now is pennsylvania democratic congresswoman and members of the rules committee, mary guy scanlan, thank you for being with us. you voted no in the rules committee, will you vote yes later tonight? certainly that s the function of the rules committee is to bring the bills to the floor, and it s the republicans job to bring the bill to the floor. this is mccarthy s deal, mc
think? that is what we are doing. in other news, here is the news with. train drivers who are members of the aslef union are on strike today. 15 train companies are affected with some operators running no services at all. it s the first of three rail strikes this week, with further action on friday and saturday. one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence says regulation of the technology needs to be ramped up . professor yoshua bengio says his feelings about al are similar to how scientists felt about the development of the atom bomb. parents on universal credit will be able to claim hundreds more to cover childcare costs from the end of next month. the government announced in spring that people with one child would be able to getjust over £950 while those with two or more children could get up to £1630. officials in southern russia say a drone has hit an oil refinery a day after an attack on moscow. vladimir putin yesterday accused ukraine of trying to fri
the bbc can t verify that figure, but understands many children have gone from care homes and residential schools. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has followed the story of parents desperate attempts to bring their children home. it is the most anxious journey of these mothers lives. dashing to reach the children they d been separated from for six months. ukrainian children, sent to summer camps run by russia, and then never returned. alla tells me every minute now counts. the children have been told they ll be put in care if their mums don t come for them. that means a gruelling trip across thousands of miles, from ukraine, deep into the country that s declared war on them. translation: i should never have let him go but we didn t know. - theyjust took him and that was that. my son had seen explosions. i wanted him to relax from the war, and then this happened. ijust hope we make it in time. russia has been removing children from parts of ukraine it occupi