together with an agreement that is very good for the american people, and recognizes needs that both sides of the aisle proffered. i m pleased to announce that we have reached a two-year budget deal to lift the spending caps for defense and urgent domestic priorities far above current spending levels. . there are a few details to work out, pu all the principles of the agreements are in place. but the deal doesn t have everything the democrats want. it doesn t have everything republicans. want. but it has a great deal of what the american people want. after months of legislative log jams, this budget deal is a genuine breakthrough. after months of fiscal brinkmanship, this is the first real sprout of bipartisanship. it should break the cycle of spending crises that have
what the chief of staff had to say about the process by which the president is about to decide whether to let it be released. i would say, i mean, this is a different memo than the first one. it s lengthier. well, it s different. and so, not leaning towards it, will be done in a responsible way. but, again, the first one was very clean relative to sources, and my initial cut is this one is a lot less clean. so at this stage have you heard back to whether the president reviewed it, and whether he, during the five-day period, is going to permit it to go forward? we understand it s being reviewed right now. we just ask that it be released free from any political edits. we took a step that the republicans did not take, which was we asked for any sensitive information that s not already been disclosed. if that s in the memo for it to be taken out. we didn t write it that way to
struck by both parties in both houses of congress, over what republicans described as an ancillary issue when democrats did essentially the same thing saying they weren t getting what they wanted on immigration in the last shutdown. so i think the broad good news for people who are fans of the government that functions is that the shutdown seems to be off the table for now, assuming that these deals, which are getting a lot of extra stuff stacked up on them, can be approved in the next less than 48 hours. now, there was a message from pelosi earlier today that she would not sign onto anything long-term unless the house got a commitment from the speaker, similar to what mitch mcconnell had given in the senate to actually bring the dreamers issue to the floor. am i correct on that? that s right. and she is still delivering that message in a way, even as we speak, she s been on the floor of the house, for about two hours. this isn t technically a filibuster because there s no bill bei
president in the middle of all of this talking about how he would welcome a shutdown. everyone i guess loves parades and shutdowns. the most interesting thing that garrett said was the phrase that the president s comments were, i think he said, totally irrelevant. i want you to think about that. to the extent that we are actually moving toward a deal, the president of the united states, the great dealmaker, is completely irrelevant to this process. k3e79 for possibly throwing in some stink bombs there walking about a shutdown. we re obviously not going to have a shutdown. it s also interesting that the deal that they re talking about, which is raising the budget caps, probably a good thing obviously from the point of view of the military, but i m old enough to remember when republicans actually did care about the deficit, and the debt. and you ll notice how little attention those issues are getting right now, after the tax cut, and the projections that we might be running a trillion
gotten republicans to address. putting money into specific programs that democrats care a great deal about. $6 billion to fight the opioid crisis. $4 billion for va hospitals. a $20 billion down payment on infrastructure. and some of the stuff buried in there that didn t even make our top line reporting on this that s also fascinating is the extension of the children s health insurance program. now they are going to add a couple more years on top of that. so a lot going on in this deal, but there will be opposition from conservatives who won t like the total money and liberals who say there s not a daca can deal in this agreement. mitch mcconnell laid out how that would be dealt with in the coming weeks on the senate side. garrett haake with the update on the breaking news from capitol hill. a senate deal, a two-year budget