ms. nellenbach: i completely agree. we had a group of students here, and you always get the question about the future of the country and how things are. there is a lot of really good bipartisan conversations happening on the hill. i will give a shameless plug for bpc. for those of you who want to learn about regulatory reform, we have been in that space for a long time and have a lot of resources. i think china, competitiveness, those are some real opportunities out there, especially around, you know, the rare earth minerals. it might be an opportunity to do something about reform. i'm actually kind of optimistic. it may not happen before the end of this session, and of this congress, but we can lay the next one. so, pivoting a little bit again, talking a little bit about the future of the republican party, and a quick reminder to our viewers that you can put questions in the chat or over twitter at bpc_live. some of the republicans who voted for the debt limit are taking a back home. then you have conservatives in the

ms. nellenbach: great. looking at the agreement itself, passes bipartisan votes, and as you alluded to, rick, we have had the far right conservatives in the house revolting. we have heard some rumblings that some of the republicans back home that voted for the bill are taking some heat. first, how does mccarthy bring the party back together? how do we move forward from this? and then what does this sort of pushback we are getting back home from republicans, how does that speak toward future agreements? rick, i don't know if you want to talk about, what does garth do now when they come back in two weeks? mr. dearborn: let's go straight to the biggest point, which is all of this was designed so they could push this thing past the election. and i think the deal runs through january 2025. it sets spending limits. house is now marking to much lower levels. a lot of the bills are at levels that are even lower than what was in the deal. i think he is trying to address it by trying to talk to his conservatives, and

ms. nellenbach: that is a great note to end on, and i 100% agree with you. i would love to find a way to get that 84%, those viewpoints amplified a little bit. i do think they are, obviously majority of the country and where people want us to be. thank you both. this was a really great conversation. i so appreciate it. thank you to our audience today. and please stay tuned at bpc.org. thank you both. "washington jou" continues. host: >> enjoins us about the news of economics, particularly out of yesterday, we figuring of where the economy is. what happened yesterday? guest: the census bureau puts out information about how the economy is doing on gdp, which is a measure of the overall growth of the economy. it gets revised as they get more information. what we found out yesterday is the economy grew faster in the first quarter in the first three months of the year than we initially thought. it was a significant upward revision, originally 1.3 annualized rate which means if it grew at that rate for an entire year that is how much the economy would grow. it gre