our military workers and government workers deserve it, and spouses and those c.h.i.p. recipients. that s what leadership looks like, the president inviting both parties again and again to the white house to discuss matters. with me now, gloria borger. what are you thinking? there s an awful lot of talk about the children s health insurance program. this is a program that could have been reauthorized any time. and i spoke with a senate democratic leadership aide who said to me this morning and i think it s a legitimate point. it s nice the republicans have discovered c.h.i.p. they could have reauthorized it. they let it expire under their watch. now, republicans will say, well, it passed the house but didn t go anywhere in the senate. yes, it did not get reauthorized. what we are seeing here is c.h.i.p. being used as a chip, as a bargaining chip.
colleagues and that s why i ve been excited to work with pete aguilar on solving this problem. let s have a daca fix and let s have some strong border security. and get this done and move on to other issues. congressman aguilar, the house gop is already saying that house democrats such as yourself who the last time i checked and i could be wrong are in the minority in the house, i believe that s correct, that you are responsible for an impending shutdown and you don t care where chip recipients if the house gop can t pass a cr here. yeah, i mean, absolutely. it s just not accurate. the responsibility of the majority is to govern. and so clearly that s what we need to see here. but even when it cops to shutdowns, republicans 90 of them voted against a cr in september. the so the obligation for republicans in the majority is to govern and put up the votes. we ll see shortly if they have the votes.
that s correct, that you are responsible for an impending shutdown and you don t care where chip recipients if the house gop can t pass a cr here. yeah, i mean, absolutely. it s just not accurate. the responsibility of the majority is to govern. and so clearly that s what we need to see here. but even when it cops to shutdowns, republicans 90 of them voted against a cr in september. the so the obligation for republicans in the majority is to govern and put up the votes. we ll see shortly if they have the votes. there was the hastert rule that guided the house for a long time. basically is required a majority of the republican caucus, a majority of the majority support a piece of legislation for it to come to the floor. i m willing to bet the proposal you and congressman aguilar are come up would pass in the next five minutes if you moved it to the floor. i doubt it has a majority of the republican caucus supporting it. so it s dead in the water, right? i wouldn t say it s dead in
older with little or no college and suburban women that is a demographic in some cases benefits from the government programs that president trump considers cutting. people who put trump in office stand to lose under the 2018 budget medicaid and the children s insurance program called c.h.i.p., education, food assistance programs, economic development programs and farm subsidies. some of the programs they are talking about cutting, food stamps, medicaid, those tend to hit poor communities many of the voters there swung to donald trump when they hadn t previously been republican, so i think it s really some of those new republican voters who would feel the pinch the fastest. reporter: c.h.i.p. recipients would lose $610 billion to