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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is set to announce a presidential run in an event on Twitter with Elon Musk. Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) discusses ongoing debt ceiling negotiations ahead of a June default deadline. South Carolina’s state Senate debates a six-week abortion bill as more women join sue a suit against Texas over its abortion laws.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, no deal on the debt ceiling.
0:03.9	Republican negotiators sounding pessimistic today after huddling on the hill, with time running out and a government default looming in as little as nine days.
0:14.3	Plus, first to NBC News, sources say Florida governor Ron DeSantis will announce he's running for president tomorrow in an online event with
0:22.2	Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
0:25.4	Plus, Battle of the Bands, a six-week abortion ban heads to the Senate floor in South
0:30.2	Carolina amid an escalating legal battle in Texas, where more women are now suing over the state's
0:36.5	restrictions.
0:49.3	Music where more women are now suing over the state's restrictions. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington,
0:52.5	where negotiations to avoid a potential
0:54.4	default on the U.S. debt are ongoing, but still no deal in sight. Despite warnings, the U.S.
1:00.5	could run out of borrowing power just nine days from now. At this hour, President Biden and
1:05.6	House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have done a lot of talking, but have not reached an agreement.
1:10.4	The two leaders both called their meeting yesterday productive,
1:13.3	but this morning the Republican negotiators struck a very different tone.
1:18.2	I don't think things are going well.
1:20.2	Until the White House understands that they have a spending crisis,
1:24.2	they have a tax crisis, and they have a debt crisis,
1:26.9	we're not going to be able to
1:28.3	make this new. The lack of urgency here is apparent from the negotiating stance of the White House.
1:34.4	The White House is clearly not sent the sense of urgency into their negotiating team.
1:43.1	Now, sources familiar with the negotiations tell NBC News, the only real areas of progress
1:48.0	so far are unclowing back COVID funding and permitting reforms and the biggest issues like
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