merry christmas tuchlt we re taking your thoughts on it. and we ll be right back on the big budget deal. also, millions wonder what is to become to their health care coverage. they just don t know what services or plans are going to be available nochlt one knows what is going to happen january 1st.
house budget committee paul ryan and senate democrat patty murray have to come up with big budget deal. it s not going to be a big deal. a pretty small deal by their own admission. what they are trying to do is prevent this year s $85 billion across the board cuts. sequester cuts that everybody hates to use that word. supposed to go up to $107 billion next year. that s what they re trying to curb. they have really five days to get a lot of stuff done. we don t assume they re going to get much done. then they come back in january when? come back in the first of year. second week of january. there is going to be the necessity of funding the government half of it. they run out the end of the year, yeah. the farm bill has been stalled for more than year because of debate over food stamps. that s out there and not done. even if they do keep the government open january 15th, then we are
house budget committee paul ryan and senate democrat patty murray have to come up with big budget deal. it s not going to be a big deal. a pretty small deal by their own admission. what they are trying to do is prevent this year s $85 billion across the board cuts. sequester cuts that everybody hates to use that word. supposed to go up to $107 billion next year. that s what they re trying to curb. they have really five days to get a lot of stuff done. we don t assume they re going to get much done. then they come back in january when? come back in the first of year. second week of january. there is going to be the necessity of funding the government half of it. they run out the end of the year, yeah. the farm bill has been stalled for more than year because of debate over food stamps. that s out there and not done. even if they do keep the government open january 15th, then we are looking at a major, major
it spells problems for broader obamacare. i would love to talk college football with you, but that s after the commercial. congression alleyeders say no one should be looking for a big budget deal. harry reid says any notion that would include cuts to entitlement programs he is calling it, quote happy talk. paul rine said he is focusing on an effort to make some kind of progress. it is going get underway on wednesday. nsa eavesdropping is having a real i m pact on u.s. relations abroad. evident by the german delegation on the way to dc for an in person explanation. president obama is forced to play nice or risk further and possibly pearl nent damage permanent damage. peter doocy joins us with new details. that s right. american surveillance programs are a political lightning rod right now, some prominent republicans are defending the nsa and the president.
fund obama care. there are 80 house republicans, they live across the country, largely in red america. 80 house republicans sent john boehner a letter, saying we will not vote on a resolution to continue to fund the government unless it strips the money for the health care plan. the house voted on a final compromise, take a look at this, only make that work there. only nine of them broke and voted yes. 71 of those conservative largely tea party members stuck with that. they dug in, even on the compromise in the end. this is where we are going forward. yes, the government is open. the debt ceiling has been raised. this political environment has not changed. that map and the math, it isn t changing in this congress. so what does that mean for the battles that are just months away? there are a number of things to look at going forward. some of these battles coulding days away. the president says let s do immigration. they re having a negotiation over a big budget deal now. for some