Tonight on the Readout, the members are reminded to abide by decorum of the house.

Democrats are taking rude, crude, and shouty congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's calls for

decorum in the house as seriously as the Republicans seem to be taking the threat to our economy

with their manufactured debt ceiling crisis. But I'm guessing our veterans and

social security recipients are not laughing. Plus, the longest January 6th sentence so far as oath

keepers leaders Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy. And later,

Ron DeSantis' disastrous campaign rollout leads to speculation that butting may have been clogging

up the Twitter tubes. But we begin tonight with the Republican lie that could plunge our nation

off of an economic cliff. With just seven days until the United States could default on our debt,

talks between Republicans and White House representatives have yet to resolve the issue.

But today, President Biden made a very important point.

It's time for Congress to act now. Now, I want to be clear that the negotiations we're having with

Speaker McCarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about the fall.

I mean, he's right. And this is why the White House, and this is the way the White House

is clearly thinking about it. But let's just be clear. What Biden said is literally why this is

a manufactured crisis. The debt ceiling, our nation's credit limit, is not a legitimate thing to be

negotiated. Any more than whether or not you can refuse to pay your credit card bill until your

spouse negotiates next year's holiday spending budget is legit. You literally have to pay the bill

for the money you already spent on your card, regardless of what you intend to spend going forward.

And if you've reached your credit limit and you have a AAA credit rating like the US does,

you can call your card company and they can raise your limit. The end.

And Republicans know this. Trust me, they know it. Because they raised the debt limit three times

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