TOP NEWS | Fox News Transgender Policy Exposed, Sen. Tim Scott Running for President, Debt Limit Debates | May 22
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
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Summary
On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meet again to talk about raising the debt ceiling.
- The transgender policies of Fox News are leaked to the public.
- Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., officially announces he is running for president in 2024.
- The NAACP issues a travel advisory for black Americans visiting Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the daily signal of top news for Monday, May 22nd. |
| 0:08.4 | Here are today's headlines. |
| 0:18.9 | President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are meeting today to talk about |
| 0:26.5 | raising the debt ceiling. |
| 0:28.3 | Their meeting comes one day after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joined NBC's Meet the |
| 0:33.3 | Press and warned that the deadline to raise the debt ceiling is quickly approaching. |
| 0:39.0 | We expect to be unable to pay all of our bills in early June and possibly as soon as June |
| 0:48.3 | 1st. |
| 0:49.7 | And I will continue to update Congress, but I certainly haven't changed my assessment. |
| 0:56.4 | So I think that that's a hard deadline. |
| 1:00.7 | House Republicans have passed a bill that would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, |
| 1:06.7 | or through March 2024, whichever comes first. |
| 1:10.2 | The GOP bill also cuts government spending, reducing spending back to 2022 levels, but |
| 1:17.4 | Biden has not agreed to the bill. |
| 1:19.8 | Republican Representative Patrick McKenry is heavily involved, and he told Press today |
| 1:24.6 | that it's a critical time for these negotiations. |
| 1:28.2 | He said this is a very sensitive point here, and the goal is to get something that can |
| 1:33.4 | be legislated into law. |
| 1:35.8 | He added that he thinks people have good will, and that he does not think there's any |
| 1:41.2 | interest in us dealing these tough conversations. |
| 1:45.0 | The hope is that the White House can reach an agreement with Republicans this week to |
| 1:49.5 | cut spending and raise the debt ceiling. |
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