there. republicans tested the waters with two options. one, an interim bill that funds the government at current levels through mid-january and includes bumps that increase spending, renewal of the controversial domestic fisa program, and some assistance for children s health insurance. the second, stand-alone $81 billion supplemental disaster spending bill for hurricane damage. in the wildfires in california. some say republicans waited too long to do all of it and spent too much time focusing on the tax bill. speak at the bottom line is we haven t even seen anything. they are so busy with the tax proposal that we haven t even seen a proposal. house minority leader nancy pelosi sent this note to democrats, urging a no vote on the cr. it says democrats want to see
obamacare cost-sharing subsidies, in the funding bill. so where does that stand at this point? how much of the 80% could you be getting? how much give do you have? well, i m part of the problem solvers caucus, which is a bipartisan caucus that comes together and we said, ewiwe wil support the cost-sharing in exchange for the employer mandate. the medical device repeal. the 40-hour workweek. you do a compromise position like that, that s a victory. and we demonstrated that we could get democrats to support that. that is the kind of hard work we have to do. it s time to start to negotiate again and do the deals here on the hill that deliver for the american people. speaker ryan has made it clear no one is no leave town until this gets fixed. but whatwe we re looking at wou only fund the government most agencies through january 19th, except for the pentagon, which would be funded for the year. there s also this $81 billion disaster relief bill that has been tacked on. is that an effor
one thing they re talking about in the house of representatives, is adding on this disaster funding. the trump administration set a supplemental budget request, additional to the usable budget spending here in washington, d.c. covering disasters, hurricanes, wild fires. he came in pretty low, much to the dismay of democrats and republicans. $44 billion. house republicans of democrats have lost that up to $81 billion, a lot of money, including the california wildfires, which were left out of the original package. we have not mention puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. it is possible, kelly, they could tack that on to that bill at one point. again, we are back to table tennis. picking and pawning bills back and forth when they don t have a lot of time picked for friday night. that is when some people here on capitol hill wonder if they could stumble into a government shutdown at christmas time but that is very dangerous because then republicans, who controlled the house and senate,
that struck the united states over these past few months and this past year. this $81 billion aid package that s been proposed, are you happy with it? well, it is not enough. as we all know the governor of puerto rico requested $94 billion. right here we have 81 among the virgin islands, puerto rico, california, texas, florida, and it doesn t provide a cost-sharing waiver for puerto rico. we all know that the government of puerto rico is insolvent and then on top of that, it doesn t do anything to address the medicaid. if we don t address the medicaid issue that puerto ricans are facing, more than 1 million puerto ricans will be without health insurance at a time when the hospital system in puerto rico is not working properly, when electricity is a problem,
for mueller s team to examine. and they seem to be nowhere near done yet in looking through it. josh joining us from the washington post, appreciate it. thank you. thank you. $81 billion, that s how much the house is requesting for a massive disaster relief package after a series of hurricanes and wildfires hit the u.s. this year. will it be enough? we ll discuss. give a little bit give a little bit. -hello. give a little bit. . of your love to me oh, haha. there s so much that we need to share so send a smile and show that you care