bust. if people are unemployed, unemployment, food stamps are necessities, not luxuries. the only time to make headway on cutting spending is when the economy is doing very well and what i shy he should do his next term. i don t think it s an if. i think in his second term but it s the right time right after he wins the election. it shouldn t be a political football. after the election is a perfect time to do that. sandra: another debt ceiling showdown. collins taking on pelosi in a pierce battle over the weekend on the sunday shows. the debt ceiling is something she will have to deal with and the budget caps deal. the question is do they want to destroy our military as they have done previously or do they want to build it up? they have to find a budget caps
them. but i think also his recent decision to pull troops out of syria rather abruptly which seems to have cost him the defense secretary. i think that has to counted among the top setbacks of the year. the one other would be how little congress really accomplished in its last chance for republican policy for several years now. paul: well, wait a minute. didn t they do the budget deal with the two year budget deal that got defense spending up, which you fought for very hard as i recall in our council and i think rightly so. the cost was a lot of domestic spending but they got a lot more military spending. they did, paul. it s a two year bump. it s not anything off the 3% of gdp that s now the norm. also, i think if it doesn t continue through the next budget caps deal with democrats running congress narks it will end up being pretty modest in what it will buy and sus dane fo sustaie
this negotiation like this, so i think this will be a good bipartisan deal, but we re more excited about the defense spending and obviously concerned about the non-defense spending levels moving forward. you say optd migsic announcement today? i m optimistic we ll get there. the president said he would love to see a shutdown if he doesn t get an immigration deal. that seemed to be speaking candidly divorce from the reality of what was happening on capitol hill. is it frustrating for you to see the president talking shutdown when he was the only one doing that? no. i can explain this very easily. i met with the president yesterday. we talked with the budget caps deal was. what he is talking about the caps deal enable us to write the spending bills. that will come forward as casey just said on air about a month from now, about four weeks to write the bill. what he is saying is i made campaign on it and i expect the border security funding to be in that bill. i have been sincere i
lawmakers on capitol hill is in another mad scramble to keep the federal government from running out of money. they have two days to come up with a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. they re moving another bill through for march 23rd but it s not likely to get through the senate. congressman is joining us from the freedom caucus. congressman, thank you for joining us. it s good to be with you, wolf. it seems like we were here just a few weeks ago, but obviously a very important time for america and hoping we get the government funding. we might be back march 23rd to try one more time. what happens if it doesn t get through the senate? wolf, i just left a meeting to come out here and be with you. where we were talking with some of the cross-sectional leaders within our conference, talking about a budget caps deal.
immigration is hard, anyway. but in an election year, it s hard to see it get done. unfortunately, yes. and before we take a quick break, we need to remind our viewers it s not just immigration and the health care bill, it s disaster relief, debt ceiling increase, budget caps deal and daca. there are a whole host of controversial issues that really matter to people back home that congress is still not dealing with. up next, increased scrutiny, partisan attacks and accusations of bias by the president. why one fbi agent now says enough is enough. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won t have to worry about replacing your car because you ll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance.