Two pm eastern, symone starts right now. Greetings, everyone. Youre watching symone. We are monitoring Breaking News at this hour. Its been a busy day on capitol hill. With a Clock Ticking and a Government Shutdown deadline just hours away. House lawmakers just approved, they just voted, yall, just approved, 45day stopgap bill. That would keep the government open, democrats coming to the rescue. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is here. Shes gonna discuss todays 11th hour scramble to avoid the shutdown. And Speaker Mccarthy surprise move, something he said he would not do. Its not over though, because keeping the government open is now in the hands of the United States senate. Theyve got eight hours. We are monitoring these developments. We will bring them to you as they are happening. Im symone sanderstownsend, i have something to say. A lot, actually. Crisis averted. We will see. Its been a whirlwind day on capitol hill. Because just hours to spare before a devastating Government Shutd
Answer. Countdown to shutdown. House speaker Kevin Mccarthys Chaotic Caucus has less than 16 hours to hammer out a deal, take the government open, and millions of federal employees paid. We are live on capitol hill with the down to the wire negotiations. Plus, we will talk to a single mother of four who works for the government who is left in financial limbo if congress does not get its act together. Plus, remembering senator Dianne Feinstein. New tributes pouring in for the longest serving female senator in female history who passed away at the age of 90. A look back at the life and legacy of this pioneering law maker ahead. And later on the show, scout of this world. The special girl scouts troop showing that kindness and acceptance knows no borders. All of that and more is coming up. All of that and more is coming up a good saturday morning to you. All im katie phang. We begin todays show with the Government Shutdown becoming more likely with each took of the clock. Whats becoming e
Paychecks hostage, threatening a government default that could stop military pay, threatening the security of 1 hadn t 4 million active duty troops, the people who fly skies, course the seas, and run toward danger to defend and protect the united states. thank you don for joining us. won a criminal complaint is filed in a case like this, it s
Kelsey, we did see some republicans walk across the aisle. we did see how quickly that got the attention of the majority leader. and it s easy to stick together when the message is as simple at pelosi made it it was open the government first, talk about the details later. she started to use the term hostage a lot and made it so that people were thinking about the idea that this shutdown was taking federal workers and their paychecks hostage. that s something really easy to rally people around and her members largely agreed with her on this. i do think it will be interesting if republicans can capture the fact that there are some actual real divisions within democrats about what happens next, what does border security mean, how far do you go in terms of negotiating with republicans? that is the space republicans i ve talked to say they want to expand on. but right now democrats are feeling really emboldened and it would be hard to break them
and it s easy to stick together when the message is as simple at pelosi made it it was open the government first, talk about the details later. she started to use the term hostage a lot and made it so that people were thinking about the idea that this shutdown was taking federal workers and their paychecks hostage. that s something really easy to rally people around and her members largely agreed with her on this. i do think it will be interesting if republicans can capture the fact that there are some actual real divisions within democrats about what happens next, what does border security mean, how far do you go in terms of negotiating with republicans? that is the space republicans i ve talked to say they want to kind of expand on. but right now democrats are feeling really emboldened. they feel they have the nation on their side and it would be hard to break them apart at this point. kelsey, while i have you, let s talk about congress.