the a iowa caucuses kick off tomorrow in below freezing temperatures as law a makerrers return to washington facing leadership plans of another continuing resolution to fund government and avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of next week. that despite a wide open border with some 8 million foreigners crossing into america illegally on joe biden s watch. utah senator mike lee on the choice to shut town the border or shut down government. then political stunts amidst allegations of bribery and money laundering. florida congressman byron donalds on the investigation into the millions the biden family accepted from foreign adversaries. plus, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene on the why the first son got up and left when she started speaking at his contempt of congress hearing. hen taiwan elect ares a new leader, the man beijing as labeled an instigator of war. the impact with wisconsin congressman and head of the select committee on china mike gallagher with
everywhere, doesn t matter how they vote, americans everywhere are sick and tired and fed up with it. and we can talk about the numbers and all the things that produce daily outrage, but the real situation here is if the republican speaker of the house and any republican or really anyone elected to serve in the united states congress should be supporting, protecting america s national security interests, and they would never vote for that deal. and that s why i told speaker johnson if he made that deal in exchange for $60 billion for ukraine, i would vacate the chair, and i still stand by those words. maria: well, he seems to be throwing cold water on the lankford deal, but is this the best that your senate if republican colleagues could come up with, the fact that one of the items in this says expulsion authority for a limited number of days only if border encounters exceed 5,000 a day over a 7-day period? so we re supposed to let in 5,000 illegal migrants before you even think about
continuing resolution to keep this government open, and what does that mean for the wide open border? no, i m not in agreement with this spending bill. i m not even in agreement on the continuing resolution. we have a massive problem at our southern border. it must be done now. it must be fixed now. and if you give the democrats money to fund the government, they will continue to ignore the problem. maria, when joe biden first came into office, encounters at the southern border were a little over 92,000. last month it was well over 330,000 encounters. and the deal that came off the senate was for 150,000 encounters a month? that s a bad deal. the democrats are not serious on this. so in my view, secure the border. if the border is not secured, this government does not deserve to be funded. we will fund the department of defense, we ll pay our troopses, we ll take care of our veterans and v.a., we ll even make sure our border agents are paid to have some semblance of security,
vote. you said you don t even have text of any of these spending plans. when do you expect a vote? okay. so we do expect a vote at early as tuesday on the continuing resolution, but as far as the supplemental aid package, we were promised that we d see text as early as this wednesday of this last week. we re now promised that maybe we ll get to see text sometime this next week. in the meantime, we ve got people pushing this deal as if it were already a proposal. we ve got the wall street journal coming out last month saying that any republican who didn t support the supplemental aid package was just trying to score cheap political points at the expense of american national security. i don t know how they can say this when there is no cool. there is no there is no deal. there is no proposal. we haven t even seen it. maria: let me switch gears and ask you about your thoughts on iowa. i see you have endorsed president trump. tells why. we ve got two choices. this is a binary choic
details that i was looking at from the senate bill that they are proposing, expulsion authority for a limited number of days only if border encounters exceed 5,000 a day over a 7-day period. so are you suggesting that this deal is telling your colleague that the only way they will put security at the border is after 5,000 illegals are, enter if a day? well, that s one way of looking at it. we still don t have bill text. that s how it s been explained to us in certain terms in that they create a new authority for the president to, you know, halt the flow of illegal alien withs across the border. but that would kick in only after they ve had a 5,000 plus migrant encounters daily. but here again, maria with, this isn t necessary. the president doesn t need a new law. existing law would allow him to address this, he just refuses to do it. and so that s why it s so disconcerting that they re