collier or county, florida, where 911 services are down as search and rescue efforts continue across the state. rachel: search and rescue efforts still underway across the state as 30 people have been confirmed dead with 27 deaths in florida alone. more than 1 million people many florida still without power. here with us today is representative greg steube, he s from the house foreign affairs committee, and, of course, he is from florida. what do you know about this leveesome because we ve been getting conflicting reports, congressman. so i talked to the sheriff and, unfortunately, he couldn t join you because he could give you an update. if they were trying, northport from police and the sarasota sheriff s department has been trying to get people out on boats and and airboats, and they were actually using that intersate area to go back and forth and bring individuals from their homes to the interstate because that was the only way to get them in and out either by airboat o
said he s worried if the budget is not passed the u.s. would not be able to deter against both russia and china at the same time and if there is a c.r. or the debt limit is not raised and funding is frozing, the u.s. military will suffer. i worry if we have a disruption in our funding, authorization, it could further erode that capability. that money, that time is lost and we won t be able to regain it going forward. if we don t pass an on time budget, if we go to a continuing resolution, readiness will drop. bottom line, readiness will drop and the future modernization programs at risk. he pointed out the growing threat from iran, and the fact that tehran has supplied hundreds of drones to ukraine strengthening its relationship with russia. iran could produce enough
the senate? because you were begging them not to do this omnibus, to go forward with a c.r. instead, a continuing resolution. ead.they didn t do that. the they had the best opportunity. so has the really i want to i want to empowerhe the republicans in the senate, utilize us . schumer runsruns the senate, but it s a close majority. but why don t they work with us? so i m setting up every committee chair here to work with the ranking republican over there. republlet s talk with our bills together. let s take their amendments, put them into ours and move them over there to empower them to be stronger. if i sit right now, i ve a told schumer, do not send an omnibus over here. th if you don t pass the appropriation bills, we re not taking it upappropri. pass r so we ll pass our appropriation bills and then send a continuing resolution. t we re not shutting down the government. we re doing our work and we re setting itgovernme up for the al public is protected. but we re also putting
in this case, the senate, ever gone forward with an omnibus spending bill . right now, you ve called this, by the way, omnibus spending. i think you re right. i want you to explain the term. but now we have republicans willing to go along with chuck schumer and the radical democrats and give them a year long budget when all they should be doing is passing a c.r., continuing resolution so that when the new house republican leadership gets in power, they ll be a check and balance against the insane amount of spending that s going on in washington. now, why would your republican colleagues be going along with this madness? where you re going to have to ask those who end up going along with this is what i told my republican and democratic colleagues two weeks ago. i think to get control inflation, we have to reduce the rate of spending growth, growth and debt accumulation.
believe in from the department of agriculture and others what they re doing is, the two people that lead in this approachitions, senator leahy and senator shelby will no longer be here in 21 days. they did not run for re-election. so there s no way that the taxpayer or constituents can hold them accountable. why wouldn t you wait 21 more days? what they re talking about is adding the baseline, where would we start in the next year? they want to increase it between 90 and $130 billion. instead of saving money, instead of cutting back in this world of inflation, why wouldn t we if we do nothing in a c.r., we save almost $100 billion. that s the hard earned taxpayer money. are you going to get time to read it? they re trying to jam it before christmas. why would you move forward when there s a change in power in 21 days where republicans would have a stronger hand? that we wouldn t be talking about adding more money.