tens of billions, maybe $20 billion in damage to the overall economy right now. when you go back to the beginning of the budget battles you ve got jobs that have been lost by some accounts 800 to 1 million 800,000 to 1 million jobs have been lost simply because the budget fighting and jess ter and first debt ceiling fight and all that nonsense. this is already hurting. main street is already feeling this. and washington just doesn t seem to get the message, this is hurting all kinds of corners of the economy, not necessarily the markets yet but it has already been hurting real people. and still that hasn t compelled a deal. it s concerning. interesting. christine romans, appreciate the update. joining me now is republican congressman james langeford. congressman good to have you here. what happened in the house today when the vote separated? evaporated. we said what could we send over to the senate first. go from there. we were not able to pull that agreement together. obviousl
you have people who aren t getting paychecks. hundreds of thousands of people who aren t getting paychecks. when people talk about what could happen or what couldn t happen and doom and gloom and the chicken little scenarios an all this blaming about what a debt ceiling fight or debt default would look like, it s already here. the shutdown has already cost tens of billions, maybe $20 billion in damage to the overall economy right now. when you go back to the beginning of the budget battles you ve got jobs that have been lost by some accounts 800 to 1 million 800,000 to 1 million jobs have been lost simply because the budget fighting and jess ter and first debt ceiling fight and all that nonsense. this is already hurting. main street is already feeling this. and washington just doesn t seem to get the message, this is hurting all kinds of corners of the economy, not necessarily the markets yet but it has already been hurting real people. and still that hasn t compelled a deal. it s co
the problem is that costs money. significant amounts of money. more than $100 billion. senate republicans don t have that space to work with. it runs head long into the leaders. the deficit hawks adding more money to what costs and could risk alienating them. senator james langeford and they don t want this plan to add to the deficit in the long-term. what you have is gop leaders trying to figure out both sides. they need to do it in a short clip. president trump meeting with republicans behind closed doors. there is hope that maybe he can get senator johnson over the finish line and as it stands, the mark up is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. senator johnson was still a no. republicans planning to move forward. something will have to give. we toll have figure out what it is. if they are not guaranteed a