timeline, a june 5th timeline for lawmakers and the president to get a deal together and get it to the president s desk. a senior white house official told me earlier this evening that they are in the final stages of negotiation and that they believe they are on track to get a deal by then. we know that one of the major sticking points in the final stages of the negotiations has been this issue of work requirements. and on that, i asked the president, what does he say to democrats who don t want him to bow to mccarthy on that issue. he said, i don t bow to anyone. let s hope there is a deal. meanwhile, the florida governor ron desantis now officially a republican candidate for president, is sharpening his attacks against donald trump, and arguing he d make a more effective leader than the former president. let s discuss with our political experts. and ron brownstein, i ll start with you. desantis has leaned heavily into a slew of rather hot button cultural issues in the last few mo
from it s not just one by the way, brian, several different sources. several different public meetings inside of el paso city council gatherings that the white house told the mayor of el paso hey, don t declare a state of emergency. we will keep, in essence, funding you. we ll keep giving you the benefits that you would under this program. but it will look a lot better for everybody if you don t declare the state of emergency. for what it s worth, according to records, brian, the city has spent something like $8 million on dealing with this illegal immigration crisis. homeless shelters and dealing with all these people now just walking across the border because the rio grande is fairly dried up. walking across and turning themselves in. and they have only gotten $2 million reimbursed. seem to me if the city of new york, you were just talking about, can declare a state of emergency, it might be an emergency as well in el paso. brian: this is what the mayor said. i don t bow to pressur
take a look at this video. el paso has been overrun by migrants, some days upwards of 2,000 illegal crossings in a single day. they are camped out under an overpass, doing street releases of migrants, they are overcapacity. hundreds of venezuelan migrants are living on the city streets. they have been overrun there and several city councilmembers, according to the new york post have asked the mayor to declare a local state of emergency, but he is apparently told by the white house not to do that with one of those city councilmembers saying that the mayor told her in a private call the mayor told me the white house asked him not to, meaning not to declare an emergency. but the mayor himself, a democrat, i would add, is pushing back. saying in part i don t bow to pressure from any side. i make decisions based on current circumstances and in the best interests of the citizens of el paso. now as a result of everything