molly: steve, thank you very much. we appreciate it. kelly? kelly: congress heading home for the holidays, choosing to deal with major issues like immigration, health care and disaster relief funding when it returns next month. but there's still the threat of a shutdown as a temporary spending bill will only fund the government through mid january. >> i think that january 19th is going to look a lot different than december 21st did. passing tax reform took up a whole lot of oxygen in the room, and i don't think we were able to get the deal that we wanted. i'm hopeful that we passed it, we can get on and have a good long-term solution, and daca may be part of that process. kelly: ellison barber joins us live from washington. ellison? >> reporter: to to-do list is often long, and punting issues is not new for congress in general, but this congress left up to for the holidays, and they really a didn't do themselves any favors for january. they passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open but