but is it expected to pass? hi the very latest from capitol hill, all thingswashin hitchhiker s guide to washington, d.c. in the swamc., inp cad program is t us . chad, what s going o on ? we expect this to pass, don t we? yeah, sean , good evening.go in fact, we think that they re going to start this 3 mn vote here in the next two tout three minutes. they started this debate at seven , 17 eastern time. and we think thi the actuankl rl call vote is going to come any. minute here. so it s pending. dwe do o expect a bipartisanrs to vote coalition of democrats and gop . house speaker kevin mccarthy members to vote yes. house speaker kevin mccarthy made the closing argumen tt. he said don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. i could say i m going to vote no because there s something re summnot in the bill. if i took that philosophy, i would never vote yes . i simply read the bills in front of me and decide, is this good for the country? i would say that answerhat an is
Acosta right now. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. Up on capitol hill, a shutdown is averted but a showdown is looming. While there was a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Republican Dysfunction In The House is ramping up this week. Maga hardliners there are expected to try to oust House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy and outraged over his deal with the democrats to keep the government funded and from capitol hill to the wouse were following all of the fallout from yesterdays dramatic turn of events melanie zanona, on set here with me in washington and Arlette Saenz is over at the white house. Let me go to you first. President biden spoke on this deal today and commented on the ugly politics of it all. Sensing that there is a large measure of disgust across the country on the part of the American People after all of this. What was his message. Reporter well, jim, President Biden said it is good news that a Government Shutdown was averted but said it
among them, allic the conservatives inof the par republican house, that is of the party of speaker mccarthy. they did make a fundamental mistake, in my opinion, and that is the speaker, ine low my view, should have kept all members in the loop with the negotiations before anything was agreed. beforeto and the anger on the r at least twenty nine that i can that i have counted is very palpable. now, conservatives do hate the lack of real budget cuts. the originals the orig plan pasd passed by the republicans did in fact cut four point eight trillion over 10 years. this one i ws two poinast one trillion and it s the first time they ll have a lower budget next year than the year prior. now but as of now, the federald lev government s insane covid level spending is pretty much here to stay because only 30 billionr of the multitrillion dollar covid relief funds are going to be clawed back andothe redistributed to other areas ofe the government. and the cuts to biden s army ofc
they think they re going to push him to some kind of capitulation there. even if he does, it s going to get to the white house and it s going to be there. it s amazing. if the end game is the medical device tax being repealed, the idea we had to shut down the federal government and flirt with the default to get rid of a medical device extra tax. it seems absurd. i guess that in a way they have a victory. they have their funding levels attached to this bill and i was talking to republicans this week who are, they re not exactly moderate, but they re institutionalists. they have been there a while. they say a couple years ago, this would have been huge. the victory is there in that this whole sequester level spending. the democrats take, a lot of republicans have embraced and learned to love. is there an out for republicans to say, hey, you know what, we got sequester level spending. that s our victory. does that exist? that s a tough sell. i talk to a lot of conservative was s
american progress and the institute for policy studies, former assistant secretary of defense was on the board with me. we showed how if you cut national security spending, ed, not just the pentagon, but everything across the board, va, does you can cut a trillion dollars out and still bring us back to 2007, 2007 level spending in inflation-adjusted dollars. for 13 years now, we have been increasing the defense budget. you could easily cut to hear this man talk about what secretary gates was recommending, but to the point to increase the budget and build more ships is preposterous. we don t need that sort of increase in defense spending. what we need is for the national security budget to pay its efforts towards reducing the deficit while keeping us safe. we re not fighting china.