It's Friday, May 26th, and this needs to wrap up yesterday.

Literally, we start here.

That ceiling negotiations are progressing, but have we already missed our deadline?

You hear people talk about crunch time?

We are well past crunch time.

Congressional experts say we got six days left, too bad it'll take seven days to avert

a catastrophe.

There were complaints about slaps on the wrist, well, not for this guy.

These are two of the harshest sentences to date that have been handed down for anybody

charged in connection with the January 6 attack.

The leader of the Oath Keepers could be an old man by the time he gets out of prison.

And the EPA oversees America's rivers, but what about America's swamps?

They rolled it back and they sharply curved the ability now of the EPA to protect wetlands

and other bodies of water.

In the fight against climate change, did the Supreme Court just limit our government's

ability to get in the weeds?

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

Democrats spent months saying they refused to negotiate over the debt ceiling.

Past a clean debt ceiling, no bringsmanship, no hostage taken.

Can't happen, the Biden White House said.

It would be like if a husband and wife are arguing over finances instead of the loser

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