Transcripts For CSPAN Interview 20240704

Announcer Aidan Quigley joins us of on budget appropriations for cq roll call is the Government Faces another partial shutdown on march 22. Where do things stand . It seems like we are in pretty good shape to avoid a shutdown and wrap up full fiscal year 2020 44we are in the middl, but as of right now it looks like we are trendingar release of the final six bills for fiscal 2024 to be released of the weekend which would put us on track to pass this by friday. Friday at midnight will be the shutdown deadline, but i suspect we will be done by then. Is a report on some of the major sticking points, the house once 2. 1 billion for a border wall, the senate went zero dollars and the senate once 250 million to shelter migrants and the house wants zeros of that. What is the plan they are and why did they do it that way . After speaker johnson and majority leader schumer announced a topline deal, appropriators split up money into the 12 separate bills. A one or 2 increasin funding for homeland, but they had a wall. They have been negotiating since january trying to come up with a way to spread that money out. The two parties could not reach an agreement may be because of big policy differences in how they want to spend money. You point out some of the major ones. Republicans and democrats have very different views over how migrants at the border should be treated and the approach to that , so essentially they were working hard to try and reach an agreement, but they negotiations fell apart this week, so instead they will do a fullyear continuing resolution for homeland which will keep fiscal year 2023 funding and policy levels in place into the end of fiscal 2024. And without the penalty put in place in order to get to that agreement, right . There is this provision that had a major effect on the appropriations process. They were busy planning and scheduling there was a temporary continuing resolution in place, you could have 1 hit its very complicated. If you hit a full year without appropriations in place. There has been a lot of confusion about this. The full year homeland cr would count as a full year of provisions according to the lawmakers who were writing it. Omb has to decide, but they are going to rule as a fullyear bill, and we will be moving on avoiding that scenario, which Neither Party wanted. It seemed like republicans were slightly better situated as it would be a cut to major nondefensecf programs if it did enact, but with the passage of the first six bills, we are moving forward. Just briefly what about ukraine and israel aid . How are those affecting agreement on the six remaining spendi bills . At this point the package the Senate Passed could have come up in the house. Speakernson is talking about that is a possibility, but when it comes to the fiscal 2024 process to the understanding that we passage and you need two forms of the house to pass spending tricky bd on the controversial issues that may or may not be in this package, so i think we will see that after and not before march 22. They are about to leave for easter recess, so that will put us in april before they could bring up the supplemental spending bill but it will not be attached to this package. Aidan