Im starting a Private Equity Fund that specializes in midcap. You do you. Switch to Xfinity Mobile today. Is it possible my network could take my business to the next level . It is with comcast business. Powering all your devices with gigspeed wifi. And you get fast downloads and uploads. Pick it up pick it up oh we got this because its powered by The Next Generation 10g network. More speed for your business . Its not just possible. Its happening. Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. The government is headed straight for a shutdown at the end of this week unless congress can come to an agreement and pass a Spending Bill at the end of this week. But as the hours go by, and we get closer to that deadline on midnight of September 30th, there you see it on screen, there are no signs of compr
i give high marks to everyone for saying let the appropriators in the room get an agreement and then take it to the floor and see if we can pass both houses. are republicans willing to give democrats something in return for coming up on the $1.3 billion figure? you know washington, compromise is about horse trading. there have been discussions of permanent protection for daca. the president offered temporary protection. that didn t satisfy democrats. it was made moot by the supreme court decision on that. are republicans offering something back to democrats? well, the homeland bill is a very large appropriation bill. i would say yes. there is a tremendous amount of common ground. the coast guard is funded. we have republicans and democrats who both support and should support the coast guard. so there is flexibility in a lot of areas. one area where i really think it s dangerous is democrats have tried to reduce the amount of
mind. i m going to make sure we have a good, strong down payment on a physical barrier. today we heard in that room very few absolute and that s a good thing. all the parties were saying this is what we need to. this is what we don t want. it was good. he was flexible. neil: republicans aren t calling it, referring to it as a wall. i understand the democrats are refusing to name figures. you are both sort of doing the good general overview thing so far, right? yes, there s a lot of issues beyond the parochial issue of a physical barrier. we ve got the entire homeland bill. we have other appropriation bills where there are genuine, not only bipartisan but bicameral differences. there is differences between house and senate appropriators on some of the other bills we get to conference. it s part of a grand deal, a grand compromise. i think we can get it done. i was pleased about the fact that the tone in the room today
this, republican senators who want this to end. why not do it, congressman, until february, to sign something at least to keep it going and continue to negotiate? what s wrong with that? there s nothing wrong with that. in fact, i think on your show before christmas, i recommended that the house pass the six appropriations bills and then a continuing resolution or a stopgap on the homeland bill. then between now and then, negotiate some border security enhancements in exchange for protection for the dreamers and the tps population. those are the temporary protective status, mostly el salvadorens. take care of those issues. by the way, if the president wanted $5.6 billion for fy-2019, why didn t he put it in his budget request? he didn t. he put in $1.6 billion. if this was sch a priority, why didn t mulvaney put it in? i don t understand this. answer that. why do you think why? do you think it s some sort of scheme or
enough. i mean cory gardner, susan collins have spoken about. but there are other senators i know are very frustrated by this, republican senators who want this to end. why not do it, congressman, until february, to sign something at least to keep it going and continue to negotiate? what s wrong with that? there s nothing wrong with that. in fact, i think on your show before christmas, i recommended that the house pass the six appropriations bills and then a continuing resolution or a stopgap on the homeland bill. then between now and then, negotiate some border security enhancements in exchange for protection for the dreamers and the tps population. those are the temporary protective status, mostly el salvadorans. take care of those issues. by the way, if the president wanted $5.6 billion for fy-2019, why didn t he put it in his budget request? he didn t. he put in $1.6 billion. if this was such a priority, why didn t mulvaney put it in? i don t understand this. answer that. why