Jeffries insists on clean debt ceiling: Full interview - NBC News

[TexasTowelie]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) joins Meet the Press exclusively to push for a clean debt ceiling hike, says his relationship with Speaker Kevin McCarthy was "good up until this point" and responds to bad poll numbers for President Biden.

[jimfields33]

1. Can he get to take away items from the bill?

The bill has passed already I just remembered. I wonder if he knows this yet.

[TexasTowelie]

4. No, he can't take anything away from the bill that already passed.

However, Jeffries knows that a new bill will have to be passed by the House that will receive President Biden's signature so that is why he will continue to press for a clean bill.

[mahina]

2. I am giving it a click, just because it's a full interview with Hakeem Jeffries

This is really great. I don’t know if he’s right, but I trust him to know the right thing to do.

-update: oh yucko, it’s meet the press.

Oh well, back to it.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I know, sometimes you have to grit your teeth through Chuck Todd to get to the actual news.

Jeffries knows that the House will have to act again in order to get a debt ceiling bill passed that will win approval in the Senate and receive President Biden's signature.