quite a month. both parties will face the same issue again. cnn s lauren fox is live on capitol hill. they ve been up all night talking, lauren. and also this indicates that maybe mitch mcconnell, for once, was feeling some pressure. reporter: yeah. if there s anything that congress loves, it s a punt, john. this is going to kick the can down the road until likely early december, when there is going to be a potential deposit shutdown because you have a funding deadline. first, this negotiation. what you are seeing is leadership staff on both sides of the aisle working very hard. i m told from republicans and democrats i m talking to they are feeling like they are making good progress. potentially this deal could come together this morning. this could slide into the afternoon because that s how things work on capitol hill. lawmakers are expected to be on recess next week. that could be a real change agent when it comes to getting a negotiation going.
fear with president biden s agenda on the line. democratic leaders plan votes on two signature spending plans against the back drop of a deposit shutdown and possible default on the u.s. debt. a week from hell. cnn s lauren fox, agent of lose fer, live on capitol hill for us this morning. we are starting to see the shape of what this week will look like. reporter: well, look, the laundry list of things to do here is growing every single day. tonight is when we will get things started. the senate is going to vote on the government funding bill to keep the government from shutting down. what does that mean? tonight in the senate this vote is going to fail. at that point democratic leaders will have to make a decision. are they going to decouple the two items to make sure it passes with republican votes or keep republicans on the line and then blame them for a potential
hope i haven t damaged her too badly. i d love to run against her and john mccain repealing the affordable act in 2017. they say quote although mr. mccain is died, mr. trump remains upset. by the way he wrote a book and the book bombed. however the president is incorrect on this one. mccain s book spent seven weeks on the new york time s best seller s list. the white house declined to comment about those remarks. man, what can we say? not much. let s bring if mollie, mollie, save us from this moment. help us out here for a second. of course, no introduction needed for mollie. let s talk a little quickly about the big take aways from last nate s state of the union address. what are the biggest take aways for you? well, for me, as one who covers capitol hill and has been following this deposit shutdown, what was notable is that the president did not bring up this idea of declaring a national emergency in order to build the wall so to speak and that s one
ten votes in the senate, he has the issue of border security in 2020. the problem is, we are no closer to finding out what it will take to end this shutdown. with the government shill partially shut down and no end in sight, president trump was back at the white house and tweeting after his surprise trip to iraq. after claiming this week the federal employees supported the shutdown many of those work verse said to me, communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. these federal workers want the wall. reporter: the president is now taunting democrats in a tweet by claiming without evidence that most of the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are democrats. that comment prompted backlash from one of the large effort unions representing federal employees. the head of the american federation of government employees writing in a statement, a deposit shutdown doesn t hurt any one political party or any one federal employee more than another. it hurts all
president would sign the cr. now he is back on capitol hill negotiating on his behalf. it seems both sides are entrenched. thank you, ladies. this weekend s deposit shutdown is all about billions of that, in funding for president trump s border watch. remember the border wall? the 21 that mexico was going to pay for? here s what first candidate then president trump promised in speech after speech. it s going to be a very tall wall. a very strong wall. a very powerful wall. it s going to such a beautiful wall. it s going to be so big. it s going to be so power. it s going to be as beautiful as the wall can be. and who is going to pay for the wall? who is going to pay for the wall? mexico! who? mexico! mexico is going to pay for the wall and they understand that. we need security. with eneed the wall. we are going to have it all. mexico had a very different