idealistic, strategic and we interested in getting results. it was beautiful. meeting and proud of. them the house and senate are very different worlds. speaker pelosi says she will never bring up a bill to the floor if she doesn t have the votes to pass it. today, chuck schumer brought a bill to the floor knowing he didn t have the votes, knowing he didn t have the 60 votes necessary to clear the procedural threshold that would then allow a vote on the actual bill itself. chuck schumer knew that he would need and not get ten republicans to cast what used to be a routine vote in the senate can simply continue government funding levels for a couple of months and raise the debt ceiling to cover the increase in the debt already incurred by the government, in this case, and kurd by the tax cuts of donald trump and the covid relief package is signed
the floor knowing he didn t have the votes, knowing he didn t have the 60 votes necessary to clear the procedural threshold that would then allow a vote on the actual bill itself chuck schumer knew he would need and not get ten republicans to cast what used to be a routine vote in the senate to simply continue current government funding levels for a couple of months and raise the debt ceiling to cover the increase in the debt already incurred by the government in this case, incurred by the tax cuts of donald trump and by the covid relief packaged signed into law by donald trump and by president joe biden. knowing that all republicans were going to vote against the bill and kill it, chuck schumer brought it to a vote so that he could make a speech telling the country just how irresponsible senate republicans are what the republicans in the
security, just not the wall that trump is talking about. where is the give here, alex? you have senator graham, a close confidant of the president, who says he won t back down until he gets that money. you mentioned he was actually speaking publicly about what he wants. what more is needed? frances, i think one side will just have to cave, which neither side is eager to do that, so instead i think we ll get something where both sides can save a little face and claim some victory. in the current government funding levels, if they just passed a clean resolution on capitol hill. there s still $1.3 billion for border security in there, not specifically for a wall but all the things hakeem jeffries was talking about. so they could bump that up a little bit, president trump could claim he got a little bit
budget crisis and the george washington bridge scandal, among other statewide issues. they also referred to his low poll numbers and the financial health of his campaign. christie responded in well under 140 characters on twitter saying, i can t read the article because i don t have a subscription. but i can tell you this, i m not going anywhere. now, breaking overnight the senate has passed a two-year budget deal. the deal sets government funding levels through september of 2017, it also suspends the nation s debt ceiling until march of 2017. the bill passed 64-35 with 18 republicans joining all democrats. now the legislation heads to the president obama who is expected to sign it. the voting came to an end shortly after 3:00 a.m. the bill drew criticism from several republicans, including a few senators running for the white house. the left, and the right, have come together in an unholy alliance to explode the debt. i hope my colleagues will listen and will listen very clearly t
becoming the party of spending cuts. house majority leader eric cantor gave a speech trying to move republicans to bid off of solely focusing on deficit reduction. bob beby jindahl moved. to talk about this bill today, it is looking at government funding levels that are, i believe, around 55 billion less than we are currently doing and are 33 billion below the last republican budget, the last paul ryan budget. you mentioned a moment ago congressman paul ryan s next budget is expected to balance the budget in ten years as opposed to 2040. that will require going deeper into medicare and changing for people over age 55. the new set of spending cuts are significantly harsher. all right. let s look at that, because those who are protected thunder bill and those who are not and