you said you would not accept a spending bill that didn t fund the wall. does that mean if we send you a spending bill, you will veto it despite the fact that the federal government s money and help is absolutely essential to the recovery to those people who were victims of hurricane harvey. and that s going to be an interesting question for the president about 30 days from now to have to consider. and, ron, in the past, hurricane funding has taken sometimes several months for congress to act on. it didn t used to be that way, but starting around 2005, there were some republicans led by mike pence in the house of representatives who started to say, look, if you re going to do disaster funding like this, you must make other cuts in the budget to make up for whatever money you re spending in disaster funding. prior to that, it used to be understood to be an emergency and something that the government was just going to have to spring into action on without cutting other spending.
associated with pardoning people who were their supporters. i mean they ve done it, but it s not something that most presidents want to be caught doing. steve bell, to the president s notion that it s going to be very easy, very quick to get all of this hurricane funding lined up. i think it s the same way he said that we were going to have a tax bill by august. even earlier than that, we were going to have a great tax bill. but the fact of the matter is this. they don t have very much time depending on how you want to count 12 to 17 days of congressional action before the 1st of october. they have a number of things they have to get done. the primary one is to increase the debt ceiling before early october. they ll probably have to do that in mid-september sometime. they don t have a budget as you pointed out for fiscal year 18, which starts on october 1st. and i think what they re going to have to do is look the president in the eyeball and say, now, wait a minute.
and i mean that s just not mentioned very much in all of this because we take it so for granted. that of course to get a pardon from donald trump, you would have to be a trump supporter. past presidents have always been very careful and afraid of being associated with pardoning people who were their supporters. i mean they ve done it, but it s not something that most presidents want to be caught doing. steve bell, to the president s notion that it s going to be very easy, very quick to get all of this hurricane funding lined up. i think it s the same way he said that we were going to have a tax bill by august. even earlier than that, we were going to have a great tax bill. but the fact of the matter is this. they don t have very much time depending on how you want to count 12 to 17 days of congressional action before the 1st of october. they have a number of things they have to get done. the primary one is to increase the debt ceiling before early october.
hurricane funding. every republican including texas republicans agreed that hurricane funding is an important and critical role for the federal government, and that hurricane sandy, a great many people were hurting from it. now, there were a number of us concerned that that particular bill became a $50 billion bill filled with pork and unrelates spending that wasn t hurricane relief. it was simply local members of congress spending on their pet projects and two-thirds of what was spent in that bill had little or nothing to do with hurricane sandy. of course, the federal government has a critical role in disaster relief. it has before and should continue to, but you should not have members of congress that are exploiting disasters to fund their pet projects, and so there will be time for all of those debates in washington. right now, jim, the immediate focus is on preserving life and saving lives that there are still substantial numbers of people in texas experiencing
stay tuned. meanwhile, let s talk a little bit about this. the wall street journal has just come out with a brand new poll regarding donald trump. and as it turns out, in the last couple of weeks he has gotten a bump as you can see right there. he had been around 40. now he is at 43. the interesting thing is when he did that deal with chuck and nancy to keep the government open to extend the debt ceiling and to come up with plenty of money for hurricane funding,. ainsley: people loved it. steve: a lot of people in washington though said what s he doing he? is talking to the democrats. you can t do that apparently exactly people like what he did. ainsley: 71% approved of that. brian: and the way he reached across the aisle. if you talk to the average american knee deep in politics they want to see democrats and republicans working together. in this case it s not going to happen for a couple reasons. got until september 30th to pass anything with simple majority. 51 votes. after that g