welcome back. 40 minutes past the hour. hundreds of thousands of americans may be affected if, indeed, the government shut downs. people in washington, d.c., would be especially hard hit. it s a city that stands to lose millions of dollars and stands to have critical services suspended. this is where it hits the road. they will lose their jobs in some cases or be furloughed and lose some of their services. the d.c. congressional delegate, eleanor holmes norton is outraged over the stalemate and joins us from the nation s capitol. representative horton, there s a really complicated relationship here, a lot of people don t get it. explain how the shutdown would affect d.c. differently than other places? the district of columbia passed its local budget balanced last year. the committees here in the house and senate approved them last summer. but these folks here in the congress, have not gotten their
we have not only my federal employees who will be out of work, we have district of columbia employees. why are they in this? every cent is local money. i have had amendment after amendment that said simply attach something that says the district of columbia can spend its own local money. instead, as you said, in your earlier clip, they re now debating policy matters. right. there are some indication that they re using district of columbia s local money in that debate. so let me ask you about this one thing. it seems as though this is sort of highlighted an issue you have separate from the budget, which is why should it have to be that this that d.c. s local budget gets wrapped into the federal mess. why didn t that get taken care of? did you have more support when the gop was not in charge of the house, when it was basically democrats running the white house and both houses of congress? 100% support. why didn t that go through then?
well, i don t think he will answer that. and he has already declared that even if this stop gap measure by the republicans that went through the house, went through the senate, it s not going to, if it did he would veto it. jay carney the spokesman basically says look they re tired of going week to week to week, there needs to be some broader deal here and you can t just pick that the pentagon is going to be funded through september 30th and not fund the rest of the government as this stop gap bill would do. the other issue they are really trying to pound is what kind of impact this would have on real people. white house officials coming overnight and saying the faa which handles about 20% of new mortgages and refinancing would have to stop its paperwork, military pay would not go through and the president also when he came out after these negotiations late last night here at the white house, said this would have a devastating impact on the recovery. earlier today, one of our natio
house. it s a big ad. unless you don t care. there it is, ad zuki is offering to pay mortgages if they paint your home and turn it into a billboard. the company has gotten more than 1,000 applications. times are tough out there when it comes to houses and mortgages. also ahead, tea party republicans want to see deep spending cuts or they say no deal on the budget. we re going to hear from a freshman member of the tea party caucus, a republican who caucuses with the rest of the republicans who support the tea party. 27 minutes after the hour.
but there were deaths caused by it and injuries. u.s. airways is raising prices for domestic flight by $10 round trip. dell tashgs the only airline to match that increase. this is the tenth time this year that airlines have called for a cost hike. we ll see if this one sticks. kiran? it s not something you expect to see in budget negotiations but there is one very charged politically charged issue that may be the sticking point if that shuts down most of the federal government. dana bash has a look a the battle within the battle in washington. the house will come to order. reporter: one of the biggest disagreements is not over government spending, but policy. some 40 or 50 policy restrictions that were attached to our bill. reporter: so-called policy riders, republicans call essential, and democrats call nonstarters. the most divisive is over aborti abortion, a gop plan to cut all federal funding for planned parenthood which provides abortion procedures in addition to other