House, the senate, the presidency and yet they were unable to keep the government open with the American People. Leader mcconnell voted 60 votes to the spending bill and yet you move forward with the lastminute extension that he knew lacked votes. Bothth democrats and publicans voted against that bill. The reason republican majority has such a difficulty finding consensus is that they could never get a firm grip on what the president of their party wanted to do. These days, these days you never know who to deal with when it comes to the republicans, the Republican Leaders told me to work out a deal with white house and the white house said work it out with Republican Leaders on the hill. Separately, President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have avertedwn the shutdown, each wouldve led to a deal on the budget in healthcare and disaster aid in things like opioids and veterans inventions and on immigration. My recent offer to the president was a
Forward with the lastminutee extension that the new lack the votes. Both democrats and republicans voted against that bill. The reason the republican majority has such difficulty finding consensus is they could never get a firm grip on what the president of their parties wanted to do. These days you never know who to deal with when it comes to the republicans, the Republican Leaders told me to work out a deal with the white house and the white house said to work it out with Republican Leaders on the hill. Separately President Trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. Each would have averted the shutdown. Each would have led to a deal on the budget on health care in disaster aid and things like opioids and veterans and pensions and on immigration. My recent offer to the president was a generous one. I put his Signature Campaign issue on the table in exchange for daca and still he turned away. President trumps unwillingness to compromise caused the trump shutdown and
Republicans strike a stopgap deal to reopen the government on the third day of the shutdown plus. After angry interruptions from Israeli Palestinian politicians the u. S. Vice president tells Israels Parliament the u. S. Embassy will move to jerusalem next year while in brussels maqueda vazquez e. U. Backing for a palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. Antec expands its offensive in Northern Syria and says russia agree to the operation. With all those sports news six term Australian Open champion though they talk of it has been locked out of all the latest news from mobilise the probe. Politicians in the United States how three each to an agreement to end the federal shutdown which came into effect at midnight on friday closing down non essential Government Services senators from this Ruling Republican Party and the opposition democrats have struck a temporary deal to restart government funding due to vote on it shortly nonessential federal services across the u. S. Are currently close
Week and follow it on all of the cspan networks. And online any time at cspan. Org. A rebroadcast of washington today and live on cspan radio. The bill before us, three things that every republican and democrat should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for nine million Vulnerable Children and third, it will enable congress to resume bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. Host with that, the federal government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day and welcome to washington today. It is monday, january 22. We have a new countdown clock, 17 days until the government funding runs out. Today is a shortterm continuing resolution which expires on february 8 in exchange for ending the stale mate, republicans have promised to take up the daca bill. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was art of h
The last ten minutes or so lets go to the fox news capitol hill senior producer chad pergram with the latest. What are we looking at . I talked to senator jeff flake who indicated they might get to the 60 votes. This is all the math. They need to get this 60 votes. This is vote not to reopen the government. If they get 60 votes the government will reopen. This will be a test vote, signal, indicating later today that the senate will vote on threeweek interim spending bill to open the government through february 8th. It will have to go to the house of representatives, what the house of representatives approved last week is different from this bill. More significant from senator flake is saying, we learned democratic senator from florida bill nelson indicated he is a yes. Let me go through the math here. They need 60 yeas. Senators flake and graham, they are now yeas. There were several republican nos the other night. So that gets you up into the low 50s. Mitch mcconnell had to vote no fo