that the measure will not pass with just gop votes. democrats face their own tough choices, many of them coming out against stopgap funding without a long-term fix for daca. some democrats, especially those facing tough races in the fall, worry about a shutdown over d.r.e.a.m.ers if there s no real agreement in sight. white house chief of staff john kelly meets with the congressional hispanic caucus later today. from capitol hill, phil mattingly with more on the search for a funding deal. reporter: we re basically at the point now of waiting. waiting to see what s going to happen in the house, waiting to see what s going to happen in the senate. to give you context, there are two questions now can the house republicans on their own get the requisite number of votes to pass a short-term continuing resolution. basically a government funding bill likely into mid-february. if they can, then the drama moves over into the senate where obviously senate republicans are going to need demo
the homeland security secretary facing anger and pushback after again saying she can t remember whether the president used a valgatva vulgarity. good morning, i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. three days until a government shutdown. on capitol hill, the two sides are actually farther apart. house republicans last night introduced a short-term spending bill that would fund the government through february 16th. it includes six years of funding for the children s health insurance program, and it delays several unpopular obamacare taxes. republicans hope the add-ons put pressure on democrats to support the bill. right now, even some republicans oppose it. yeah. the chairman of the hard right, house freedom caucus, mark meadows, says there are enough nos and undecideds among members that the measure won t pass with just gop votes. meantime, democrats face their own tough choices, many coming out against stopgap funding without a long-term fix for daca.
bill include funding for his wall on the southern border? lieutenant president go to mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stopgap funding measure? i think it goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and need for a border wall. so i would suspect he ll do the right thing for sure, but i will suspect he will be insistent on the funding. house speaker paul ryan told members on a conference call yesterday, keeping the government running will be priority number one this week. but lawmakers on that call tell cnn the leadership was short on details. they say so far they are planning a friday vote on the spending bill, leaving very little room for error. on his first trip to walter reed medical center the president awarded a purple heart to a soldier wounded in afghanistan. take a look.
there, we all have their lives, we re busy with children. we can t follow this every single minute. it seems like a lot of noise come from capitol hill. and ultimately it sounds like something stinks in denmark. that one body wants the other party to be the one that defeats. is there anything to that? reporter: i m not so sure it s that one wants the other to be the one to defeat as much as you should look at the flip side of that coin. which is that particularly in the case of house republicans, they want to be able to say to their conservative constituen constituencies, don t give up. we tried and fought until the last possible minute to get every little bit of what we ve been fighting for in here. do the math with me. you were explaining throughout the weekend why january 15th is a significant day that that s where the stopgap funding needs
he has the latest. good morning, doug. good morning. in many ways it is about face saving measures with the president wanting to say he didn t negotiate and republicans wanting to point to some kind of concession. the president yesterday a little bit of a budge. my simple point is this, the democrats in the senate and house are prepared to talk about anything. i am prepared to talk about anything. they can design whatever format they want. an offer to talk only if they pass stopgap funding and raise the debt ceiling enough for a few weeks or months. at the same time democrats in congress were talking about something different piling on another trillion dollars plus to the national debt without any spending cuts. we can t raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what is driving us to borrow more money and live beyond our means.