out of here and get back home before the storm hits and get back home to families for christmas. look, we re in a waiting game before the senate starts to vote. so let s sit down together and take a look at what we found inside this 4,000 page bill. okay. you the taxpayer are about to pony up $850 billion on defense spending and $770 million on defend spending and that includes $45 billion in ukraine aid, 45 billion for disaster relief, billions for programs authorized but the jobs act, the chips act and the pact act, which is for veterans. the electoral recount act in response to january 6. that s in this bill, too, in response to the tik tok ban on government devices. a lot of pet projects, too underneath hitten in this christmas tree bill. for example, susan collins and some other lawmakers from maine,
calls it a big win for the gop. he s got to get ten republicans on board to get this thing out of the senate and on to the house. all before this deadline on friday. you think it will happen? neil: i sent a copy of the measure to you. i requested that you personally carry it back to your office in d.c. i m coming to new york. i don t want you to strain anything. i ll help you out. neil: amazing. you re so right. it s amazing. senator james langford from oklahoma here with us. great to have you, senator. would you be among those ten republican senators that would sign off on this? i am not among those ten republican senators. it s interesting to note that absolutely zero people have read this bill at 4,000 plus pages. that was released in the middle of the night last night. so as everyone is trying neil: who writing it, senator?
they got a pause on regulation hurting the lobster industry in that state and house progressives got an extra $25 million for the national labor relations board. so a lot of pet things that people have been working on that has nothing to do with defense spending. so the committee for a responsible federal budget actually called the budget too late and too big. several senate republicans are trying to sound the alarm. watch. this is the gateway drug to the massive deficit spending to the mortgaging of our children s future. it has to stop. it s a corrupt process. you hand out enough special favors here or there to get that proposal. you throw 7,500 ear marks and you re going to get a lot of people to jump on board. that isn t right. so neil, now all eyes are on leader mitch mcconnell who by the way has endorsed this bill,
this? this stack represents the wording and the pages behind a 1.7 tribal trillion only new bus spending bill. you need to be a speed reader to go there it. i can go through it. spending more money than god, spending more money than god. now aishah hasnie is covering something more gargantuan. aishah? i want to see you carry that around in the studio. can you pick it up? neil: impossible. it s amazing. 4,000 pages. the 1,000 that reagan was holding, nothing compared to this. you re right. not a lot of time for lawmakers to even sift through and read what is in the bill. you have lawmakers trying to get
reprieve. the only issue is for how long. let s get the latest from bill melugin. bill? good afternoon. we re potentially hours away from title 42 ending tonight depending what happens with the supreme court. meantime, the state of texas surging resources to the border. coming up after the break, we ll tell you what texas is doing from dissuading migrants from crossing the river. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. where can you go for family fun. and do your holiday shopping all-in-one? lowe s, actually. the final days of winterfest are here. save now before they re gone.