howard: we ve all seen this movie before way too many times, it s washington melodrama beloved by the media, suspenseful story, a ticking clock. it s a self-inflicted crises with a government shutdown hanging in the balance, and journalists start issuing dire warnings of all the people who d be hurt if the feds can t pay their bills. talk about a waste of time, an endless parade of dysfunction. it s real americans who will be paying the price while the elect representatives who are suppose to be working for you, they aren t doing that. a government shutdown that will leave roughly 7 million women and children without s.m.a.p. benefits which means they could go hungry. active duty military members will go without pay. howard: the warnings come true and the focus shifts to how long the politicians will keep squabbling before coming to their senses, or there s a last minute if deal. that s what happened last night. and usually that means a stopgap funding measure, in this ca
If they cannot, the president has threatened to use executive action to fund his border wall. that historic shutdown cost the u.s. economy at least $6 billion according to a new report bystander ab by standard and poor s global ratings. so was the shutdown worth it and where do things go from here? lawmakers on both sides weighing in this morning. shutdowns are never good policy, ever. they are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be. we cannot have the threat of a government shutdown hanging over our people and our economy. we all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. we all know it s a strategy the american people abhorred, and that s why the president had to cave, but we also want to make sure it never happens again,
So was the shutdown worth it? and why do things go from here? lawmakers on both sides weighing in this morning. shutdowns are never good policy, ever. they are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal no matter how important that goal may seem to be. we cannot have the threat of a government shutdown hanging over our people and our economy. we all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. we all know it s a strategy the american people abhorred and that s why the president had to cave. but we also want to make sure it never happens again, whoever is president, whoever is in congress. let s check in with cnn correspondent boris sanchez. the republicans are not backing down on the threat to get congress to get his border wall.
We cannot have the threat of a government shutdown hanging over our people and our economy. we all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. we all know it s a strategy the american people abhorred. that s why the president had to cave, but we also want to make sure it never happens again, whomever is president, whomever is in congress. let s check in now with cnn s white house correspondent boris sanchez. the trump administration not at all backing down from this threat to bypass congress, get the president s border wall going. that s right, fred. the president is determined to get funding for his long-promised border wall. for some time now, the white house had been looking at different avenues of securing funding for the wall. one of them would be to declare a national emergency, to get funding that way. it s an option the president has had on the table for quite some time, but he hasn t take than step. in part because there s no guarantee that it would work.
Beginning in a good way, watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, almost friday, thank you for starting your day with us. let s begin with the showdown on capitol hill, not a great day, republicans raising for votes for donald trump s border wall but democrats are fighting back. the threat of a government shutdown hanging in the balance, griff jenkins live in washington with reaction from both sides of the aisle but you always have a great day no matter what. house republicans, the deadline is a week from tomorrow, fast approaching and they are working seriously not only to keep the government over the holidays but the request for $5 billion for a border wall. a line in the sand, lawmakers on the hill realize is not a white house bluff. looks to me like he is as serious as four heart attacks and the stroke.