Comments made on 4/21/23.

I'm just trying to get a sense of what You need to see to have this Conversation between the president and The speaker because you've said you're Happy to talk about the budget the President or the speaker has now put out What appears to be the closest thing He's going to get to putting out a Budget so what are you waiting for so What we're waiting for is for them to Avoid default what we're waiting for the For House Republicans is to put that on The floor so that they could we can Avoid the fault that's what we want Cessation until they put out that we've Been very clear about that we do not Want to negotiate on this we want to Make sure that they do what they did the Last three times and avoid default they Need to put that bill put a clean bill On the floor so that we do not continue They do not continue to hold the American economy hostage and that's what They're doing which has will have Dangerous consequences for not just our Economy for the American people so That's what we want them to do and no Talking until look they need to do that And then we can go ahead and have a Conversation about the budget