points to remember. house republicans and the house of representatives passed a resolution to keep the government funded, the president supports that, and a bipartisan majority of say the senators supported that when we had that vote. second thing is, there isn t anything in this resolution that everybody is not for. the democrats are for authorizing the children s health understand program for 9 million kid in this country and a number of the obamacare taxes that everybody hates would be delayed. this is something that there is a huge majority of bipartisan support. eric: they are digging in their heels. they are following their leader. chuck super walked them into this boxed canyon where they don t have anyway out. the deadline for daca is march.
who, while fen men, are not exactly representative of the republican position of immigration issues. this just in, mitch mcconnell has said the deadline for daca is march, at a minimum, possibly longer. they said pay no attention to the friday deadline, we don t want them to be connected. i think they want wiggle room, jan 19th to pass with no government shut down, he has to say that. chris coons would not say it, he would not draw the line in the sand. i thought in the interviews, you heard exactly what functioning government would look like. neither one of them in the room. a moderate remembepublican, a moderate democrat, no hard lines, go narrow.
the deadline expires march 5th. now, the spending bill is separate from that. i know democrats are trying to connect the two things. the spending deadline s this month, but daca is march, so we ll see if they can decouple those issues. but the border security proposal they put forward takes us from something like 650 miles of wall or fence up to 1,000 miles. it s not a significant increase. it is expensive, $18 billion. they re not going to get probably that full amount, but they may get part of it, and it s important to remember, in 2013, 54 senate democrats voted for hundreds of millions of dollars in border security. democrats were for more border security at one point. they re against it now because trump s for it. whether they can hold that view going forward without solving the underlying problem of a porous border i think is a question. doug, i ll get you to respond to that but i want to read a statement from dick durbin. president trump has said he may need a good government