solutions? we re not getting done much apart. that was senator john mccain in an impassioned plea to congress the day he returned to washington following brain surgery in july. he s renewing that call today ahead of the busy september session. in a washington post op-ed, mccain wrote, it is time for members of congress to respect each other and to respect that they need each other to get anything done. he writes, vote, that has never been truer than today, when congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulltiimpu impulsive in his speech and conduct. we must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities. we must, where we can, cooperate with him. but we are not his subordinates. we don t answer to him. we answer to the american people. back with us is franco, and we re joined by contributing writer of the daily beast.
budget deal. passing the budget is only one item on a busy september agenda for president trump and congress may not be the most important. the nbc first read team laid out the to do list for the month. providing hurricane harvey relief money, raising the debt limit by the end of september keeping the government open, crafting a tax reperform bill, and maybe giving one more shot in the senate. franko by any measure that is a aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know from covering washington for a long time, budgets are something that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get done. what does that agenda look like to you? it does look tough. it looks very difficult. i will say that harvey has kind of brought people together. you talked about the wall and
let s trust each other. let s return to regular order. we have been spinning our wheel on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. what have we to lose by trying to work together to find those solutions? we re not getting done much apart. that was senator john mccain, an impassioned plea to fwres the day he returned to washington following brain surgery in july. he is renewing that call today ahead of the busy september session. in a washington post op-ed mccain wrote it s time for members of congress to respect each other and to respect that they need each other to get anything done. he writes, quote, that has never been truer than today. when congress must govern with a president who has no experience
let s trust each other. let s return to regular order. we have been spinning our wheel on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. what have we to lose by trying to work together to find those solutions? we re not getting done much apart. that was senator john mccain, an impassioned plea to fwres the day he returned to washington following brain surgery in july. he is renewing that call today ahead of the busy september session. in a washington post op-ed mccain wrote it s time for members of congress to respect each other and to respect that they need each other to get anything done. he writes, quote, that has never been truer than today. when congress must govern with a president who has no experience
an aggressive agenda. for a congress that actually gets things done, that would be a tough agenda. and as you know, from covering washington for a long time, budgets are sometimes that even a congress that gets other things done struggles to get done. so what does that agenda look like to you? it does look tough. i will say that harvey has kind of brought people together. you talked about the wall and the possibility of a government shutdown. you know, president trump has backed down a little bit about that in private. and harvey is a big reason for that, because it s brought people together. they know they need to get this done. a government shutdown during such a huge rebuilding effort would not look good. so i think this is a place where they can come together. what s going to happen is, what is it going to look like? is it going to be a short-term spending bill that s kind of what it sounds like. we re seeing some bickering