they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. after months of punting and a few last-minute hurdles a $1.7 trillion deal to fund the government has been reached. soon the senate votes then the house gets the bill and there s no room for error. a shutdown happens tomorrow night if this doesn t pass. cnn s manu raju has been talking to lawmakers. joins us live on the hill. manu, this $1.7 trillion question here is the path clear? reporter: yeah, it is at the moment and this is pretty remarkable how quickly now the senate is moving. they could move to final passage of this bill within the next hour. now, this is remarkable because of the size and the scope of this 4100-page measure. $1.7 trillion that funds all aspects of the federal government including more than $45 billion in aid to ukraine.
$1.7 trillion, 4,100 pages, three times the length of the bible. i do have senator rick scott saying he knows that nobody is going to read it, because they just don t have time. senator mike lee is talking about the fact that it has nothing to do with border protection at all, all this massive spending. he s trying to change that. he was on hannity last night. this bill is full of democratic priorities. it does nothing to protect the border. to the contrary it contains language undermining border security. i insist we have at least one amendment, up or down vote, on whether to preserve title 42, because title 42 is the one thing standing between us and other chaos. we have mostly cast, this would bring us to utter chaos if it expires, which it s about two. all he want his number down vote. chuck schumer and the democrats are terrified of an up or down vote. why? because they want absolute
latest. a new op-ed not holding back calling the proposed bill the ugliest omnibus ever. we have a panel here. thank you so much. merry christmas to both of you. we appreciate you giving us a little of your time right before christmas. i feel when we talk about pork, congressmen and women like the pork when it is their pork and get to take it home and show it off to their home areas but what do you think about just how massive this is, mark, start with you. this entire bill is a d.c. swamp mess. 4100 pages long. four times the length of the king james bible. when you look at all the spending priorities, the thing they aren t spending money are is securing the border. it prohibits them from securing the border and provides over $4 hundred million for middle east
$1.2 million for lgbtq pride centers, $3 million for new york city s american lgbtq+ museum, $3.6 million for a trail named after michelle obama in georgia, and $1.2 million to help illegal border crossings with immigration status, taxpayer funds. senator rand paul knocking the more than 4100-page bill on twitter, posting this picture of the bill on a card marked hazardous debt. that s a lot of pages right there. award-winning actor and outspoken liberal tim robbins talking about how politics, not science, drove conversations around code vaccines. a very different political advienvironment in the united states, very divisive, very much based on politics. it s kind of orwellian. if you didn t take the vaccine, you were a republican. carley: he also saw the light on vaccines division.
community of el paso. we re a very caring community. mayor, thank you. so the senate is racing to pass its massive $1.8 trillion funding bill to beat the winter storm coming. manu raju is on capitol hill. what s the latest on timing on this package vote? reporter: that is really the big question on capitol hill. we do expect that this bill will eventually become law. the question is, when? even though this bill juswas unveiled just yesterday morning, 1:20 in the morning, and it was drafted by a handful of members, it encompasses $1.7 trillion in federal spending, and encompasses more than 4,100 pages. it is still expected to pass the senate as soon as today. now the question is, when? because all 100 senators need to agree on the scheduling of a vo vote. if not, one senator can delay things, and they re negotiating an amendment package to give