the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
i would say, nikki haley kind of has the least pressure on her going into iowa. for one reason. because donald trump and ron desantis have all of the pressure. the two absolutes in iowa are donald trump must win and arguably win big, and ron desantis must come in second. he has bet everything on iowa. he has the endorsement of the governor. one of the strong faith leaders in the state. this is everything to him. if he comes in third behind nikki haley, his campaign is done if it s not already done, and there would be an expectation that he would drop out and leave it a one-on-one race between haley and trump. nikki haley, her momentum is really in new hampshire, and that s why you see donald trump hitting her on the airwaves in this state. new hampshire is the next contest. i know governor chris christie is also hoping to stake a claim in new hampshire as well. congressman, you know, we are talking about the primary, but it s inextricably a conversation that s also linked to november