The apparent wrath of the far-right House Freedom Caucus in response to the debt ceiling deal
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the Readout. |
| 0:06.1 | I think when you read the Wall Street Journal, you read the New York Post. |
| 0:09.4 | You sit back and listen to a lot of economists. |
| 0:11.6 | They'll say, this is the strongest debt sale we ever had. |
| 0:14.8 | This is a disaster. |
| 0:16.8 | It is an entire capitulation. |
| 0:19.7 | Kevin McCarthy is emasculating himself and the Republican majority. |
| 0:24.8 | Masculating, well, if the Republican chaos caucuses this man about the debt ceiling deal, |
| 0:31.1 | you know President Biden got a good result. |
| 0:33.7 | Also tonight, new reporting on the growing bad blood among Trump's lawyers, including |
| 0:38.9 | that one of them may have been misled about where Trump was hiding classified documents. |
| 0:45.5 | And presidential candidate and toy sized Mussolini Ron DeSantis unveiled his authoritarian |
| 0:51.4 | manifesto vowing to destroy leftism and wokeism. |
| 0:56.5 | So tell us how you're going to do that, Ron. |
| 1:02.4 | We begin tonight with a debt ceiling deal and the wrath of the pro-default caucus. |
| 1:08.3 | I am sure you've heard by now that after Marathon talks over the weekend, President Biden |
| 1:12.5 | and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement on a deal to suspend the debt ceiling. |
| 1:18.2 | Not raised, that's important and I will get back to that in a minute. |
| 1:21.6 | The House is expected to vote on the bill tomorrow. |
| 1:24.8 | The House Rules Committee meant today to vote on whether it will make it to the floor, |
| 1:28.8 | the first procedural hurdle for the deal. |
| 1:31.8 | But if you want to know whether the deal itself is any good, |
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