Cuts to spending. They dont want to spend a dime on ukraine, they want to spend it on the work, instead. If there was a shutdown, while all this plays out, its a reminder of real life consequences, your flights would be delayed, thousands of Airport Workers are without pay. Border agents wont get paid either. The United States is left vulnerable. If pentagon workers are furloughed, Small Businesses will get new loans. Food inspections wont happen. Museums, national parks, forests will close, Student Loans will be disrupted, and so will the money for school districts. Kids who had access to programs disrupted, it all happened at links. Issues from the environment to cancer will be paused. We will speak to someone who is in the commit overrun capital hill. Congressman, thank you for being here. We are 24 hours away from the shutdown. What is the path out of this to avoid a shutdown . What are you hearing from leadership about what we might see in the next 24 hours . Let me comment on som
In his car. There was so much rain a sea lion at the Central Park Zoo managed to escape her pool when it flooded. The zoo says that she roamed around for a bit but she was eventually returned safely to her exhibit tonight. Thank you for joining me on this friday night. Cnn primetime with abby phillip starts right now. This is americas debt. More than 33 trillion. And the first time that clock has reached that grim milestone. That is more than a quarter Million Dollars per taxpayer. Tax cuts, stimulus programs, defense spending, pandemic unemployment, all of them to blame. And any fair person would agree that that is unsustainable. So the republican mission to lower that number makes some sense. The problem is their method of drawing attention to it is about to shut the American Economy down. The government down. And negatively impact americans who dont have the time or frankly the money for the poison of todays politics. Good evening. Im abby phillip. And in just 24 hours the clock wil