Welcome, it is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and the Senate has

sent the debt ceiling package to Biden's desk with the default threat just days away

and translation.

The sausage has been made in Washington, DC.

Senator, you just left that vote.

We are doing this after the vote took place.

And I want to start off with asking you this.

This couldn't get done without Republicans in the Senate.

If the Republicans all stayed together, they wouldn't have gotten the 60 votes needed.

So which Republicans went with the Democrats to get this deal done?

Well, Ben, that's exactly right.

You and I are sitting here at 11.52 p.m. on Thursday night.

I just came from the Senate floor about a half hour ago.

We were voting on the debt ceiling.

And we were voting on this deal, the Joe Biden deal that he negotiated with Kevin McCarthy.

That's a lousy deal.

We've talked about it quite a bit on the podcast.

And the interesting thing is in the Senate, Republicans had it entirely within our power

to kill this.

In order for this to pass, the Democrats had to get 60 votes.

If they didn't get 60 votes, it wouldn't pass.

Which means if 41 Republicans stood together, we could have killed it.

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