unlikely to happen, but because you have the harvey funding, it s more likely than not more things will get down. i was going to say it allowi wall being included. though tying harvey to the debt ceiling, rick, is there going to be an issue or potential show down with the freedom caucus over this. i think absolutely. i think the freedom caucus may even balk at this. we ll see. this is a down payment on harvey funding and harvey is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. this is going to be hundreds of billions. this is a very small down payment. but as harold said, i think it does make it easier for it to pass and so it probably likely will pass. that s got to happen first and then they ve got the budget. and then they ll have to be dealing with daca. daca, the budget, debt ceiling, harvey. is tax reform something that they should be doing right now? well, tax reform is something i think a lot of small
karoun, you stalk the halls of congress every day. what do you think they ll tackle first? the first thing they said they re going to talk about is the annual defense spending bill they ll give that some time to clear that off the books before they move on to all the other issues that are the pressing ones they have to finish at the end of the month about the continuing resolution, about harvey funding. then, of course, the looming debt ceiling approaching. that will give them a little bit of time to try to work out exactly how this is going to look legislatively, but we re going to have all that going on, and those fights will have to come to some sort of conclusion to keep the government from shutting down, but they won t be over because we re talking about there being then a few months later other deadlines coming up that will require us to look at what the next funding will be, like hurricane harvey relief and more serious policy fight down the line.
president trump to take action tomorrow on daca. deferred action of childhood arrivals. giving congress a chance to get it right. that is a little bit harder. i think harvey helps politics because it gets people to vote for things like the debt ceiling. daca is another matter. i don t think congress is looking forward to six months of solving the daca problem or else you ll have this terrible political problem on their hands if trump pulls the plug. that s a real difficult problem. harvey made it worse because not only were daca recipients people who were hurt by the flood. you have had daca recipients who are first responders, and one of them even died. i think it s going to be very difficult. mike: this whole issue of raising the debt ceiling. do they do it clean, attach it harvey funding? when is it okay for conservatives to save this government should be cutting spending. i can hardly think of
will get tied to the debt ceiling it looks like. steve mnuchin was talking about that over the weekend. we believe it should be tied to the harvey funding. we want the state to get money, it is critical, if i don t have the ability to borrow more money and pay for it, we can t get that money to the state. you said it well at the outset. the president, mistakically said that he could not support a debt ceiling increase. this makes it easier for him and frankly because they re only doing it as a down payment, they will have to come back two or three times so there will be time to add additional things. so tax reform that is still
harvey s devastation, donations from across the country continue pouring in. first to wisconsin where 26 cheese companies are sending over 17,000 pounds of cheese to houston s largest food bank. next, nfl star j.j. watt, who a week ago set out to raise $200,000, but managed to amass over $18 million in donations for flood relief, and the houston texan hasn t started using that money quite yet, but he, his teammates, and other volunteers unloaded ten semitrucks filled with donated food, water, and other supplies giving it to storm victims. in washington treasury secretary steve mnuchin is pressuring congress to raise the country s debt limit saying not doing so could endanger $8 billion in federal relief aid for texas. the president and i believe that it should be tied to the harvey funding. our first priority is to make sure that the state gets money. it is critical. we need to be sure we raise the