Good morning. Welcome back to us today. It's Thursday, April 27th. I'm Nyla Buddha. Here's what we're

following today. Disney suits Florida Governor Rhonda Santis. Plus, writer E. Jean Carroll takes the

stand to accuse former President Trump of rape. But first, what's next for the debt ceiling deadlock?

That's today's one big thing.

The house voted yesterday 217 to 215 to raise the debt ceiling while cutting government spending.

But the bill has no chance of becoming law. So what does this mean for the country's

looming financial deadline? Axios says Mike Ellen is here this morning with the big picture.

Good morning, Mike. Good morning, Nyla. Mike, a really narrow vote, but still a big win for Speaker McCarthy?

Nyla, yes, this was a win for Speaker McCarthy, a Republican because he got all the Republicans he

needed. Of course, that shouldn't be news. But Nyla in this narrowly divided house where you have

a divided Republican party where, of course, Speaker McCarthy had to scramble days to become Speaker.

This wasn't a sure thing. Our reporter's counted as many as eight hard knows from Republicans

against this plan to raise the debt ceiling. And of course, that's trying to avoid fiscal calamity

when the United States runs out of borrowing room as soon as June. In the end, the tally was half

that only four Republicans voted against it. Now it's headed for trouble because now it heads

for the Senate. Senate Democrats have no plans to pass this. And Nyla, I can't say it any better

than the lead headline of my former employer, the Washington Post, US drifts toward Cliff as debt

ceiling bill passes house. So how will this affect negotiations with Democrats and President Biden?

Two things about one, this was designed to push those negotiations. The whole point of this

was to try to get President Biden to engage on it. Our axial story this morning says that McCarthy

told reporters after the vote that not only did we offer a plan, we passed it. So that's

Republican's effort to take the offensive. But Nyla, here's the problem. Now it goes to the Senate

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