we heard from the president yesterday. he seemed frustrated with the process and procedures that he s dealing with in washington now. right, president trump often times has a theatrical way of making his point and yesterday morning shocked everybody by tweeting that he might veto the large 1.3 trillion dollars spending bill. he left everyone guessing for a couple hours and then ultimately did sign it. he made several points in doing so, initially he tweeted out that he was displeased with the lack of wall funding and the lack of a daca deal in that bill. he later added that he was upset at the size of the bill and in his words, that no one read it before actually voting on it. so he reassured he addressed directly the hispanic community and said he was seriously about a daca deal. and he also reassured fiscal hawks who are concerned about large government spending bills. the president also said that he wants the senate to change its rules requiring 60 votes for most legislation
we heard from the president yesterday. he seemed frustrated with the process and procedures that he s dealing with in washington now. right, president trump often times has a theatrical way of making his point and yesterday morning shocked everybody by tweeting that he might veto the large 1.3 trillion dollars spending bill. he left everyone guessing for a couple hours and then ultimately did sign it. he made several points in doing so, initially he tweeted out that he was displeased with the lack of wall funding and the lack of a daca deal in that bill. he later added that he was upset at the size of the bill and in his words, that no one read it before actually voting on it. so he reassured he addressed directly the hispanic community and said he was seriously about a daca deal. and he also reassured fiscal hawks who are concerned about large government spending bills. the president also said that he wants the senate to change its rules requiring 60 votes for most legislation
the democratic side addresses a lot of concerns the democrats have. that s why when i talked to staffers at the house in the last 24 hours, they re very frustrated with daca, they re very frustrated with the speaker. but in the end they believe the votes will be there, at least enough votes to get them over the edge. it s the size and scale of this deal. the group of conservatives, fiscal hawks, made it clear that the spending goes too far. the non-defense is a problem. the $90 billion in disaster relief that s not paid for, that s a problem as well. speaker ryan will lose a decent chunk of his caucus, maybe 30 or 40 congressmen. that s why they need democrats. how many they re going to get is still an open-ended question. aides still comfortable to get there. it s just a matter of how and when. they have to do it by midnight to prevent a government
adds greatly to the budget deficit. the first guarantees troubles with democrats. the second with republican hawks. how the deem came together and how it may move from here. where do things stand. we have the deal. $300 billion. florida, texas. puerto rico. taking that self-imposed crisis off the congress. we have the deadline as well. obviously midnight tomorrow night the goth shuts down. what we don t have yet. there are going to be republicans that vote against this. fiscal hawks who are said they are opposed to this. what means is speaker paul ryan will need democratic votes. that s a problem. the reason exactly what you laid out. daca. immigration. democrats recognize republicans want defense spending so much
building tunnels and highways. jon: unless you re barack obama until you find out there weren t as many shovel-ready projects. will there be republicans having just cut taxes and added a trillion dollars to deficits in the next decade? how many people who portray themselves as budget hawks, as fiscal hawks will be willing to go along with something the president talks about a trillion dollars, we think what we re getting out of the white house is not a trillion in federal spending but maybe a quarter of that in federal spending that he hopes will leverage public works spending by private concerns. will enough republicans be willing to go along with that? i don t think we know. i think we will know, however, once we see whether they keep the government open at the end of january, whether the republicans get together on that, on increasing spending levels that will allow that to happen. whether they get together on an immigration fix that the democrats will have leverage on.