Welcome to the beat on Marie Melbourne. We're reporting on news coming out of the White

House as the president draws a line in the sand telling House Republicans and public to

just show them the money. Explain their budget.

Mr. President, what are you talking about? What are you talking about?

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Tell me your budget. I'll show your mind.

Tell me the budget. Biden is referring to House Republicans have repeatedly come up empty

handed when asked a straightforward question given that they're now in charge of the

House. What do they actually want to cut? And this is all against the context of a possible

debt showdown looming.

If social security and Medicare are off the table, as you just said, where do Republicans

want to cut spending?

That's going to be part of the dance.

Well, the dance is here and that's the context for the president's meeting late today.

This was his first meeting with the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy. We don't have video from

inside it because the White House kept it as a closed press first summit. But Biden,

we know as sad at that Resolute desk before he's had his share of high stakes meetings.

And he watched as Vice President when then President Obama faced a similar effort to

ransom the economy. House Republicans are threatening a similar brinksmanship now. We don't

know how far they'll go. But they're also having internal fights with a narrow majority

about what they want to do and what they want to really cut.

House Republicans say they might refuse to confirm the spending that is already basically

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