government until there is border wall money. nancy pelosi will not give a dollar towards that border wall. do you see that glimmer of hope and what would an off-ramp look like? i think it really depends right how who puts forward a proposal that calls the other side s bluff successfully. what we saw yesterday in the senate was the two proposals, the democrat and republican one, trotted out and now we know where everybody in the senate stands and it will really be senate republicans that will have to break away from the president if the democrats are going to get their way and right now it seems like they are winning over people from the gop, not vice versa. six republicans decided to vote to reopen the government without the border wall funding. now the president is saying we ll do this short term opening of the government if we have the row rat prorated wall funding. before they were saying let s open up everything else, extend the homeland security budget for about a month, so we c
directed to? for you, jennifer, governor. okay, great. call me jennifer, it s good. i really think that movement on both sides is really good thing for those 800,000 employees, right? so democrats had remember that the president originally had asked for $1.6 billion in his budget request. the democrats offered to give him that. in this homeland security budget, they ve offered $1.3 billion for border security and now they re going to add another $1 billion on top of that for other border security type of measures including technology. i think this is all going to come down to how you define the word wall. is it an electronic barrier and democrats are willing to, you know, provide funding for that? is there more detection technology? or is it purely a bridge and the mo
nonstarter. he tweeted a $1.3 billion democratic wish list that includes zero money for a border barrier is a nonstarter. if you know it s a nonstarter with those republicans, and with the president, why make this move? why vote to pass it? first of all, why is it a nonstarter? it would fund the other six agencies. we re making these public servants who aren t republicans or democrats, just there trying to serve the people, pawns in the middle of all this. it would fund six other departments through the end of the year so we can get regular bills passed in the orderly fashion we re supposed to be doing it. would take homeland security, it would extend it to february 8th so we can reopen the government so the custom and border patrol agents, other homeland security people who are working, not sure when their next paycheck is going to come, and give us time to sit down and negotiate, and i m not somebody who thinks compromise is a dirty word, but it would take the homeland security bud
here, i don t think anything is going to happen until after january 3rd when she becomes speaker. she has the votes ow. why take that risk if you re her? it would make no sense. then you ll see a real deal come together. at the same time, republicans seem very clear here with the democrats leaving town, okay, we ll deal with a new congress after january 3rd and let s come to the table, and i m willing to do x, y, and z. the president laid that out, to keep this going, and to fight for his border security. that s when i think the real game is going to begin, when she is actually the speaker of the house. phil mattingly said to me last night, it was really eye opening. it s not about is this going to make it into the new congress, it s how far into the new congress this is going to stretch, which is where we are, which is a scary thought for everyone now looking at still being out of work or without pay for that much longer. i wonder, keith, which option, short-term bill to february,
video, you ve seen, of mick mulvaney saying the same thing back in 2015. right. so let s talk about how long this thing is going to last. nothing can happen before thursday at the very earliest. mick mulvaney says it s going to go until january 3rd. that s up to him and up to the president. we democrats have given the administration three very, very sensible options for keeping the government open. and remember, there are seven appropriations bills that are yet to pass representing about 25% of discretionary spending for the government. six of those have no controversy surrounding them. we could pass them and get all of those people back to work immediately without any disruption. the only one where there is controversy is the homeland security budget and over the border wall. let s pass a continuation resolution, give us a couple months to work on that but pass all the other ones. the commerce department is one of those. i have about a thousand census