here, but it s from people who are working for us in the military or in the federal government. and there s no shared, you know, sacrifice as the president called for. so where s the left on that? and that but the left again and again the democrats have been willing to recognize in divided government you make compromise and don t get everything you want. it s the republicans let me say something here. john, i d like to get your thoug thoughts. in the process, as democrats have said, okay, we ll cede this part of our ground to congress in the name of getting something done, which is nancy pelosi whipping the house democrats and saying, listen, we re going to push this through. but in the process of that, i mean, the goalposts have moved right. i want to bring up our chart of the various budgets. can we bring up the chart? the original president obama s original budget, $1.235 trillion. the senate democrat budget, $1.058 trillion. the senate cr was 986.
in new york, a conservative journalist. this unnamed house member said i think there is a sense for us to do a clean kr now, what the he ll is this about? who two things, one, do you have any optimism this is going to end soon and, two, do have you any accepts of any sort of bottom-line demands that republicans could make that you could live with that could end this thing? no. this is fundamentally a budget dispute t. senate passed the bill for 1.058 trillion dollar congressary spending. you normally split the difference. the house democrats and the president and the senate democrats agreed to go with the republican number. that s a total concession. at least for the six week cr. we ll fight that again for the next cr that has to start on november 15th. for now, it s a total capitulation. for the republicans to add
it may be that it will go a few hours or a few days, but in the end, they re going to have to pass a clean cr. but of course, the much, much greater threat is that they insist on some on delaying the affordable care act and holding in part as a condition of raising the debt ceiling and they throw the country in default, and that could be catastrophic for the economy for years and years and even generations. and what s particularly wrong about this is that it s one thing to have a budget fight, you know, the democrats want $1.058 trillion in this resolution, the republicans want $966 billion. we ve surrendered to the republicans, at least for a few weeks. good point. that s a budget fight. but to take something completely unrelated, which passed both houses of congress, which the president signed, which the people approved in effect by re-electing the president and democratic senate, and then say we, the minority in one house,
them. democrats think they have already given on this. the spending bill under the budget control act, that lifted the debt ceiling think how big this number its, 1 1.058 trillion. this turn spending bill is down to 1.6 billion. the democrats say we already caved. just stop putting all these healthcare provisions on the bill to keep the government open. neil: i m just curious. i m sorry. sonned out there as i was checking the wires the idea we got to protect the military at all costs here so that they re not adversely impacted. that s something on which the two sides agree. but that seems to be the extent of their sort of bipartisan look at this. yeah. that s just about it. what you re going to see later if you watch the olympics and watch ping-pong where they bounce the ball back and forth, this is the parliamentary term on capitol hill of what is going on right now. the senate ponged a bill back to