and it seems like he s going to get it. somehow, he s going to get it. he s going to get it. this is going to be tied up in the courts. first of all, erin, it s unspeakably cruel. the president has taken 800,000 federal workers hostage. they are suffering. and now he s going to make the people of puerto rico, and also texas can i just say, between building the wall and taking disaster funding away from texas, he s going to turn texas blue faster than beto o rourke. texas republicans hate that wall. they are going to hate having this funding taken away and the fact that it isn t spent yet, you know how long it can take to spe spend disaster funds. i had cousins on long island after sandy that weren t back in their houses for a year. if you spend it fast, it s often completely wasted. exactly. and you have to make sure you re spending it appropriately. this is just make sugar thmake that you re spending sure that those taxpayer dollars, take that money and make sure you re ap
done in congress. and really, congress has got to get together and the power of the purse is there. and by the way, that money was appropriated for something else. i was part of appropriating that money for disaster funding. just because it isn t spent doesn t mean we get to use it for something else. if anything, it should be given back. there s a purpose and you have to treat these dollars and i know that look, i am supportive of border security. i think it s important for us to have border security. but the but going outside of congress, going outside of where you should be to appropriate those funds, going into puerto rico, i think it s inappropriate. i do not like these executive orders and i really put it on the leadership in the house and in the senate to put this together and get things done. it s right now i call it ping-pong politics. you know, they re just kind of going back and forth and not really no one s getting anything. and what s interesting, joan s ,
the southern border will be on hannity later tonight on this channel. as we learn about the day and with the trip entailed, we get reports on the hill that we are confirming come of the white house has directed the army of engineers to see if they can divert money to the border wall for disaster funding. that is for california, her cans in texas, puerto rico. basically looking at what money is available, what funds could be diverted to a border wall. that being confirmed as the shutdown continues. again, friday marks the first time the paychecks will not go out. let s bring in our panel. david brody, chief political analyst for the christian broadcast network. morgan ortagus, jonathan swan, national reporter. lindsey graham s effort at the moderate coalition to get some compromise seem to fall flat on the face. we are back to ground zero.
and it doesn t have any money for the things they say they are for but they really can t articulate. the other thing that affects people in the south who went through this disaster funding what happens if the republicans had passed a bill with disaster funding but this bill didn t have any? it didn t. it s amazing to me. this is about show. it s about putting on a show for the american people saying we will tell you what we think you want to hear but we will do something completely different. listen to us but don t watch us. there is a disaster going on right now, the aid in georgia and florida in many places. we are talking generational issues and farmers down there with trees, pecans and others they take more than a season to grow back and there s nothing in these spending packages to deal with this disaster relief. if the democrats are serious about this, you will see real action instead of this pretend action we are seeing. jason: if you are affected by these disasters, you nee