Debt limit deal faces crucial test ahead of House vote
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The House Rules Committee is meeting to decide whether to advance the debt limit deal reached by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. GOP hardliners have slammed the deal saying they would sink it and question McCarthy’s leadership. Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson, who helped negotiate the deal, tells Anderson Cooper he’s confident a majority of House Republicans will support the bill.
Plus, actor Jeremy Strong joins AC360 to talk about the series finale of “Succession” and what it was like playing Kendall Roy.
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| 0:00.0 | And good evening on 360 tonight, Dead Sealing Drama, closed door meeting going on right |
| 0:05.9 | now with House Republicans, which could determine if the bill makes it to the floor and if |
| 0:09.6 | Speaker Kevin McCarthy keeps his job. |
| 0:12.4 | Also tonight, an interview with the 11-year-old boy who called 911 for help and got shot |
| 0:17.1 | by the police officer who responded. |
| 0:19.5 | And succession is over, but tonight Kendall is talking. |
| 0:22.5 | Actor Jeremy Strong joins me with behind the scenes look at the show's riveting finale. |
| 0:27.1 | He begins tonight though with some late signs of progress, but also the criticism House |
| 0:30.6 | Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing from some members of his own party as he and President |
| 0:35.4 | Biden race to turn the Dead Sealing agreement. |
| 0:37.4 | They reach Friday night into law. |
| 0:39.6 | Failing could hurt the economy for all of us, but given how toxic the deal is with some |
| 0:43.8 | of the more extreme members, every step that Speaker McCarthy takes to pass it could put |
| 0:48.2 | his speakership in jeopardy. |
| 0:49.4 | He's been his male and his son, he joins us now with very late. |
| 0:52.5 | So what is the latest you're hearing from House Republicans about where this is headed? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, the House is on the verge of clearing at least one procedural hurdle because the House |
| 1:01.6 | Rules Committee is expected to advance a rule which would allow the bill to come to the |
| 1:06.2 | floor tomorrow despite opposition from two conservatives on the panel. |
| 1:09.9 | So that is a big sigh of relief for leadership, but they still have to actually pass the underlying |
| 1:14.5 | bill on the House floor and there has been opposition from both the far left and the far |
| 1:19.9 | right. |
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