are the 12 appropriations bills that they have to vote on by the end of the year, or a c r kicks and. right now, during these negotiations, they are pushing committees, and correct me if i m wrong, to bring spending levels at fy 2022 levels, lower than what was in the agreement that was signed into law by the president. exactly, the debt limit agreement stipulated that there were spending caps for all 12 as a different appropriations bills, including defense, which a lot of republicans were not happy with in the senate, but then they ended up voting for, anyway, because i figured that that was better than defaulting on our debt, right? the issue now is that kevin mccarthy has, essentially gone back on that pledge from the debt limit agreement, and had the house, this past week, the house appropriations committee approved of what were called the three of two b s, it s just a wonky way to say these are the spending caps for all 12 appropriations bills, and it s a shortfall of more than
he talked to senate appropriators, they re saying, no, we re gonna go up to what those spending caps are, we re going to honor a word, we re going to be responsible here. and what this is going to lead to is a standoff between the house and senate, once again. you re not going to have any democrats in the house, obviously, support these efforts, so it s going to be a party line bill, multiple party line bills in the house, and then in the senate, where the senate is designed to be bipartisan, with the 60 vote threshold, these appropriation bills are going to pass with a bipartisan majorities, and then the question is, okay, what happens next? a government shutdown is very much on the table. so part of the dynamic here is the dynamic between speaker mccarthy and house majority leader steve scalise. i think you had the reporting here about you guys reported about steve scalise not sounding very much like an ally of speaker mccarthy, where he said, there was a lot of anger being
clear the document does not say joe biden received any payment. former attorney general bill barr says the unverified claims are still being investigated in delaware. a lot of damage is being done to the country and to the department because of the silence. i think it s time to fish or cut bait. complam mooring on the hill. rishi sunak took house republicans about ukraine s support from other nato allies. we are lucky to have america s investment in european security but we need to share the burden alongside you. with ukraine s counteroffensive underway future u.s. aid packages look anything but certain after house speaker kevin mccarthy confirmed he will block work around spending caps despite protests from senate republicans. i believe we will have the funding necessary to support ukraine as long as it takes. i ask people to picture what would happen if we were not supporting ukraine.
decisions. coming up, congresswoman anna paulina luna on oversight committee s next move to prove joe biden and his family have been influence peddling for decades. then, why she voted against the debt ceiling bill as well just signed into law by president biden. it s all right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the very latest on the new debt ceiling bill. the president signed into law this weekend the so-called fiscal responsibility act, an agreement to the raise the debt ceiling while putting some spending caps in place for the upcoming few years. of the deal brokered by the house speaker, ken mccarthy, and president biden kevin mccarthy suspends the debt limit until january 1st, 2025, it holds non-defense spending flat for 2024 and puts a 1% increase cap in non-defense spending in place for fiscal