with an hour and change to g until a partial government shutdown the capital is quiet. they ve both adjourned the hous says $5 billion is good, the senate says that s probably going to be too much. democratic leader chuck schumer chastised the. there weren t enough republican or democrats and the enthusiasm lindsey graham had when he to dig in. there has been talk about maybe trying to move forward with $1.6 billion of that the congress leader one of the lawmakers to encourage presiden john to take a stand and veto anything that doesn t have border wall money says $1.6 billion is inadequate. most lawmakers are on their way back home so the shutdown could go for a while.
hour after leadership announced they didn t have the votes to pass the $5 billion border wall and they said they were going t take any votes at all until leaders worked something out. any changes they made to the bill would have to be approved by the house, but the house saw the writing on the wall. the last leader on the hill tonight holding official meetings was actually the vice president mike pence hewitt tried to squeeze is much border wall money as possible out of senate lawmakers, but he left about an hour ago never indicating what the white house is offering in a deal or what they might give up. he had to break a 47-47 type earlier today to order to debat on the order wall money. that boat today was kept open for hours because lawmakers needed to fly back from home where they headed after catchin as spending bill that didn t have any border wall money and many of them were already on their way back home to their
wall. but you re fine with paying for the $18 billion a year for healthcare? that s cool with you? when people. okay, see her all right with that. the key thing here is the border wall doesn t have the votes. you will have less with votes i about two weeks. the votes aren t there. it s theoretical. they re not going to get the money from this congress. they haven t for two years so why are we shutting down for th government for a vote that will work in the presidents favor. we don t deal in the realm o facts we have 25 percent of the government nonessential employees, nonessential service are covered under the shutdown. every time i hear nonessential think why are these people in the government at all? we only need these people. we don t really need to, sta home. it s craziness. it s also such a scam.
when i comes the question of shutting down it comes to schumer. does schumer make a decision to shut down or not. this is a fundamentally different shutdown than those i the past because we ve already funded three quarters of the government. when it comes to defense, military men and women and others are all taken care of, but this is too important to le keep going. we know what s happening along the border. think about what schumer said a few weeks ago. provides money for the border, but he s afraid it would affect nancy pelosi is vote for speaker . i have to tell you. back in october, you and i talked about this at the time. when paul ryan said were going to do this are going to have a conversation is going to have w all knew that was ridiculous. i mean you were not in that camp , but for two years paul ryan, and everyone here says this i like him very much as a