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. In translation, the sausage has been made in Washington, D.C.

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 is 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.

It'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. Actually, five Democrats

voted no tonight. So if those five had held their ground, just 36 Republicans could have stood together and killed it,

but sadly, that didn't happen. So who are the Republicans that voted for this deal? Well,

in alphabetical order, John Bozeman from Arkansas, Shelleymore Capito from West Virginia,

Susan Collins from Maine.

John Cornyn from Texas.

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