occurs, it will be so were salt ever publicans once again deciding that if they are unable to jam their extreme right wing policies down the throats of the american people, they re going to shut down the government, her every day americans and crash the economy. we re going to do everything possible to stop that from happening that was hasse democratic leader hakeem jeffries yesterday, and it looks like déjà vu all over again in the house of representatives, as the first of two that time to fund the government is fast approaching. ahead of next week s deadline, speaker mike johnson and senate majority leader chuck schumer announced that they had agreed to it one point 65 trillion dollar spending deal. that s the same top line spending number agreed to last year in bipartisan debt ceiling deal, but this deal happens to include a major win for
gesture from capitol hill and senior msnbc political contributor matt dowd as well. julia, if you will, start us off. take us through it. what do we know? yasmin, this is the first step in avoiding a government shutdown. it comes 12 days away from that january 19th deadline which had been looming. what this top line number means is that democratic senate leader chuck schumer and house speaker johnson have both agreed on a top line spending number which means that now that they have the steak and get into the nitty-gritty of how all of that money is appropriated. once we hear this number and learn of this later this afternoon, we should be hearing from the appropriators more on how the breakdown is. there s a lot to keep an eye on as we look at what is into this spending deal a number, specifically one of the issues is a 69 billion dollars in non military domestic funding which
republican leadership. this means that they have made a deal on a top line spending number, which has been, obviously, a point of contention for many, many weeks now. now, it s worth noting that we don t have details of what s going to be in this framework. hopefully, we will see that a bit later this afternoon. and so, this is just one piece of avoiding a government shutdown. it s worth noting it is completely separate from the separate negotiations happening on the border funding and immigration for reform that is tied with the supplemental for ukraine funding. while this is great news for avoiding that shut down, there is that threat from some republicans who have a shot down with regards to the border. but this is really, really good news for those that were hoping to avert a shutdown. joe, thank you for that. appreciate it. i want to go back to congresswoman stansbury, standing by for us. correct me if i m wrong, congresswoman, you know better than i do at this point.
understanding government talk. so, there is gonna be an announcement of the steel, the top line spending number. i imagine this is connected to the laddered c r that speaker johnson had initially put in place, right? in order to avert a government shutdown, that deadline is a couple of weeks away. this has nothing to do with what we just heard from jewels, with immigration, with getting ukraine aid out, with getting israel aid out at the moment. but nonetheless, effort that government shutdown, which many of us are understandably concerned about. you know, i mean, we really don t know what s going to happen over the next few weeks with the house gop. if you rewind that tape a few months ago and remember what happened in october again around the government shutdown negotiations, house republicans could not get it done. the freedom caucus, the right-wing republicans, not willing to vote for any kind of
weeks with the house coming back next week. that s one of the big lynchpins. trump probably is not going to want to see some type of acceptance on immigration because it s not going to be good enough, and so you will see this dysfunction really propel itself into the next couple of weeks with a real threat of a shutdown across the government with no deal on the spending. the top line spending number still has not been agreed to despite congress being out of session now for three weeks and negotiations were supposed to be happening on the side, but really, there s been no breakthrough at all. january 6th is going to be an issue way back in the past as people look at the issues that confront us literally in the next couple of weeks. fred upton, laura barron-lopez, thanks to both of you. ron desantis and nikki haley will take questions from voters in back-to-back cnn town hall events and kaitlan collins and