5/30/23: DeSantis floats Trump pardon, debt ceiling goes toxic
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 30 May 2023
β±οΈ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I hope everybody had a good Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:18.8 | If you live in the United States and you had a day off on Monday, you know, I received |
| 0:23.9 | many emails over the weekend about the debt ceiling and the bill that may have been |
| 0:28.9 | reached to avoid defaulting on US debt. |
| 0:33.0 | And many of you were saying, David, why haven't you been covering this? |
| 0:37.8 | Why aren't you covering this? |
| 0:39.4 | And it is true. |
| 0:40.4 | Other than I believe it was just one story on the world famous award-winning bonus show. |
| 0:46.0 | I have not spoken about the debt ceiling debate, controversy, whatever you want to call |
| 0:52.0 | it. |
| 0:53.0 | And that has not been by accident. |
| 0:54.4 | It's been on purpose. |
| 0:55.4 | And I want to explain to you why. |
| 0:56.7 | And then I want to hear from you. |
| 0:58.0 | Does this make sense or should I have been talking about it all along? |
| 1:01.3 | Now as a reminder, the debt ceiling is the legal limit on how much the federal government |
| 1:05.9 | can borrow to pay its bills. |
| 1:08.5 | And importantly, it has nothing to do with new spending. |
| 1:11.9 | When we talk about the debt ceiling, we're talking about borrowing to honor prior obligations |
| 1:19.3 | already approved by Congress. |
| 1:21.5 | So when people wanted to bait, well, we should allow the US to default because I'm against |
| 1:27.5 | the inflation reduction actor, whatever the case may be. |
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