Welcome to the dispatch podcast.

I'm Sarah Isger.

That's Jonah Goldberg.

That other one is Steve Hayes.

And we've got a great lineup today.

We're going to start talking about the debt ceiling.

Are we stumbling toward default?

And then we'll talk about the Fox News versus Dominion

settlement with two guys who used to work at Fox News.

Lastly, do a little bit on DeSantis versus Trump.

Is it too late for Ron DeSantis or is that getting overhyped

as well?

And lastly, a little not worth your time on QR codes.

Let's dive right in.

Speaker McCarty has put out his proposal

for how to increase the debt ceiling, attach it to spending cuts.

Nothing particularly surprising in there.

But several poison pills at the Biden administration in no way

is going to accept at this point.

You also still have defectors from the right within his caucus.

All the things that we expected at this point,

it seems to me that the markets are under appreciating the likelihood

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