Desperately needed for National Defense is not fully funded. The president just wrote this, the spending bill passed overnight with bipartisan support and until this morning, both houses of congress, even the white house budget director said that it did have the president s support. Going to capitol hill now, cnns Suzanne Malveaux is there. What reaction are you getting from lawmakers, suzanne . Reporter the Republican Leadership has yet to formally respond to the president s latest tweet, but some aides i did talk to are quite stunned with this development. Ive been walking the halls as well here and the offices are empty because many members of congress have already gone home for their twoweek recess. So you can imagine here kind of the surprise, the shock and perhaps a little bit of caution whether or not this is really going to develop into anything. But uncertainty in the process here. There are those who say, look, this is not a popular spending bill that it took a lot of arm twi
more than just a demonstration. they really want to see some action take place and that s what they re doing here today, at the united states capitol, meeting with lawmakers, pressing them to pass laws which in their mind would solve some of this problem, in particular they want to see stricter gun laws and just about an hour ago, they wrapped up a press conference with some of those lawmakers, lawmakers from florida, some other united states senators a part of that press conference, and we also heard from some of these young people that have been the victims of gun violence, that have been part of the school shootings. among them, dmitri hoff, a survivor of the parkland shooting. listen to what he had to say about the importance of this weekend. a lo lot of people think washington is the finality of the accumulation of everything that we have been working towards these past couple of weeks. in reality, it is just the beginning. it is just the announcement to america that we have arr