That was his salute as he left the pentagon for the last time tonight. Thank you so much for joining us. Cnn primetime with abby philip starts right now. In just 48 hours the poisonous politics and School Yard Rhetoric will have real life consequences. The United States government will once again shut down. It comes on an extraordinary day when a president openly accused his predecessor of trying to kill the republic. In a hearing to impeach said president , it backfired on republicans. Good evening everyone. Im abby phillip. Under way right now on capitol hill the house is voting on a series of bills none of which are expected to actually avert a Government Shutdown. Remember those hard liners want drastic cuts to spending including to programs that affect schools. Lets go straight to capitol hill. Reporter hey, abby. Tonight these bills theyll vote on in the house are not expected to pass the senate but to be dead on arrival, but they may not even have the votes to pass among House R
This sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with growing pressure on the u. S. Congress to avoid a crippling u. S. Government shutdown this week. Time is running out. Lawmakers now have just six days to pass a Spending Bill to fund the government. Federal agencies have already started the formal process of preparing for a shutdown. If that happens, millions of federal workers could have their paychecks withheld until a deal is reached. But with the clock ticking, it is clear House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy doesnt have the votes to pass a stopgap funding bill and House Republicans are engaged in Open Warfare Over who is to blame for the stalemate. The hold outs keep saying to Kevin Mccarthy, dont bring bipartisan bills to the floor. We dont want you to use democrat votes to try to avert a shutdown. But theyre using democrat votes to try to cause a shutdown. These individuals, these republican hold outs are voting with nancy pelosi. We should have separate single subject Spending Bills. K
Get to languish, which military families are able to settle in their new posts and which must remain in limbo. Thats Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer calling on his republican colleagues to put pressure on senator Tommy Tuberville to end his months long blockade of Military Promotions it comes as the chamber finally confirmed a top officer yesterday. Also on capitol hill House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy will again try to pass a defense spending bill, a measure that typically sails through easily after far right members blocked it from moving forward and ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy who will also be on capitol hill today hoping to secure more military aid from congress. Hell also meet with President Biden at the White House Well have much more on all that straight ahead good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 21st im jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. We have a very busy morning and a lot of news to get to. Lets start her
can do about that. and so a lot of these hardliners are free to say like, you know what we re not going to go along with you anymore. and that makes it house completely unruly. and i said a lot of old line republicans are just throwing up their hands when we talked him on the hills are just exasperating like, i don t even know how to do that. retiring they re winning, they re leaving their staffs are leaving too. i mean, that s everything that s been happening in recent weeks and jackie, what about what s happening on the democratic side? because you talked to it depends on who you talk to him. yeah, there s some lawmakers are saying, oh, no, no, we re keeping our powder dry, we re not going to tip her hand as to what we re going to do there s some democrats are saying, you know what, if mike johnson is going to give us ukraine aid will help them stay speaker of the house. that s that s also hard to put your thumb on it, though, if you re right. but though there are there there is a
$69 billion of a side agreement that has held fast and headed for a government shutdown. the exact same problems again that republicans faced three months ago when mike johnson made the case for why he d be a better speaker than kevin mccarthy. quickly, is ukraine going to get funded? is israel going to get funded? most importantly rightmestic po republicans going to do the deal to toughen up protections at the southern border? that is also in limbo. you have hard line republicans who think the government is worth shutting down if hr-2, the staunch border security bill that the house passed last may, are not willing to accept this bipartisan package that has been negotiated in the senate, which is now also falling apart over a few different provisions, specifically parole and the expediting of work permits. there are a lot of unknowns on both sides here which is all to