Theyll be relying on congress to pass a Spending Bill and aboat Government Shutdown by a midnight deadline next saturday. If congress fails, those workers paychecks will be delayed possibly for weeks. Federal agencies have begun the process of preparing for a shutdown and it looks more and more likely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over a handful of gop handliners, but hes hopeful theyll eventually vote for a Stopgap Spending Measure did avoid shutdown. New jersey senator bob menendez is pushing back against calls to resign, even from fellow democrats. Federal prosecutors say menendez and his wife took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes including gold bars, cash, Home Mortgage payments, and a luxury vehicle. A Growing Crisis at the mexican border. Federal officials are sending more resources to help with the surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Lets bring in a panel of political experts to talk about this. Joining us now, former fox news host Geraldo
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good afternoon. A major new deadline hangs over washington and the heads of federal employees across country. Just one week from today the federal government face as midnight shutdown and unless a funding bill can be passed and signed by the president. With every passing hour that looks more unlikely. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy sent lawmakers home for a long weekend after federal agencies becoming a formal process preparing for a shutdown of Military Personnel. Their paychecks could be delayed for weeks as a crisis grows at the Southern Board Perp federal officials sending more resources to help with this weeks surge of migrants crossing into the u. S. Today House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy conceded he has to win over republicans hardliners but hopeful theyll fall in line to pass a Stopgap Spending Measure and prevent a shutdown. Finally agree on this, and shutting down i dont see and cnn chief Congress Correspondent manu raj
International aid is flooding into the country. Trey yingst is live in marrakesh as if all the rescue report. And jackie, good evening. Rescue efforts are underway at this hour. Still these individuals looking for survivors not only here in the marrakesh region but further south closer to the epicenter. Today we were in medina a Historic District that is partially destroyed leaving many people homeless. Take a look. Click right now moroccan simply do not the time to mourn. They are looking for a loved ones under debris just south of here in the villages in the Atlas Mountains are trying to clean the streets here and the historic city of marrakesh. Making sense of what took place on friday night 6. 8 magnitude earthquake. Shaking the ground here leaving more than 2000 people dead. You see the civilians that live here. They are terrified about what comes next. Not just about having to rebuild but also the possibility of aftershocks. Civilians are taken the normal roads they normally take
A Shutdown Showdown is brewing on the hill. Lawmakers back at work this week. The first thing on the agenda is making sure the government does not run out of money. Im asking senator Chris Van Hollen what it will take to avoid that Government Shutdown. Plus, State Representative Gloria Johnson, one of the Tennessee Three, shes on the ballot. She just lost her campaign for the United States senate. Why she thinks now is the time to take her talents to washington, d. C. Im Simone Sanders townsend, and i have something to say. Both chambers of congress are back in session this week, and lawmakers hit the ground running. Its a story that has become all too familiar in a narrowly divided washington d. C. Government funding, folks, it runs out on September 30th. There are only 11 working days left to pass a spending package. The house and the senate are nowhere near an agreement. Last week, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer told his caucus that they would prioritize several Appropriations
he wants him because he s making a fool of himself saying we ain t got nothing but a squirrel fire and a hound dog says something like that. what was the first one? squirrel fryer. oh, fryer. right. by the way, speaking of eating fried squirrel, did you hear about the new liz cheney book that came out, willie? yes. there s a lot there. but here s my what a jump around, joe. here s my favorite line from it, though. kevin mccarthy oh, no. justifying his trip to mar-a-lago by saying three words that nobody has ever said about donald trump. he s not eating. now all i can say no! is this: if kevin mccarthy s job was to go down to mar-a-lago to get donald eating again, well, he did a hell of a job. yeah. because that ain t been a problem since. wasn t really a problem before. you know, maybe if he said, i got to go down to mar-a-lago because donald is cheating on his wind sprints we d believe that. but he s not eating, i don t believe it,