Help us understand what kinds of cuts Republicans are proposing in exchange for agreeing to raise the dead ceiling.

To take a step back, I would say even more than that, the Republicans use this very cynically, right?

So during the Trump administration, the debt ceiling, you know, we were going to run up against it multiple times and it was extended no problem.

Republicans always supporting it. They just use it as a little leverage point whenever there's a Democratic

president. Otherwise, it doesn't really come up. And then Democrats are kind of stupid as well for not

just getting rid of it whenever they have the power to do that. They could just repeal that law

and we'd be good to go. But yeah, I mean,

what Republicans are pushing right now, it's kind of funny because they've been a little bit

scarce on the details here and there, but they're trying to find ways to really kind of pigeonhole

the administration on things that they think are popular with the public, but that Democrats don't like. That's sort of

the whole game when you're in a split government and you don't control the presidency. It's just

kind of playing games like that over and over again. And the place where they think they've got them

is making it harder to get food stamps and TANF and other kinds of means tested assistance, including Medicaid,

unless, you know, you show that you're available for work and engage in certain kind of work

activities and things like that. So that's where they're really headed. And it's not even almost

like a budget cut thing. It's just let's add these rules because a lot of the rules that they want to add

wouldn't even necessarily save money. They would just make life harder for people on the program,

you know. So I'd like to talk specifically about what some of these rules are that are being proposed.

It's been somewhat frustrating to me that with all of the discourse around the debt ceiling,

the lack of specificity, I think, unwittingly,

probably on the part of a lot of left-leading commentators, provides cover for how rather monstrous

in my view what Republicans are proposing really is. I'm hearing a lot of Republicans,

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