the republican side will be joined by three more. without a spending deal, the government will shut down friday at midnight. without a daca deal, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers face possible deportation after march 5th thanks to president trump s decision to end daca. today, capitol police arrested 82 people seeking to prevent the deportations in the rotunda of the russell senate office building. republicans want to pass a short-term bill to fund the government without any protections for those 800,000 people. many democrats are refusing to play along unless the d.r.e.a.m.ers are protected. the overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don t like this deal and they believe if we kick account can down the road this time, we ll be back where we started from next time. so there s very, very strong support not to go along with their deal. for his part, president trump is attempting to place the blame for the possible shutdown on anyone but himself. today he described the
colleagues and that s why i ve been excited to work with pete aguilar on solving this problem. let s have a daca fix and let s have some strong border security. and get this done and move on to other issues. congressman aguilar, the house gop is already saying that house democrats such as yourself who the last time i checked and i could be wrong are in the minority in the house, i believe that s correct, that you are responsible for an impending shutdown and you don t care where chip recipients if the house gop can t pass a cr here. yeah, i mean, absolutely. it s just not accurate. the responsibility of the majority is to govern. and so clearly that s what we need to see here. but even when it cops to shutdowns, republicans 90 of them voted against a cr in september. the so the obligation for republicans in the majority is to govern and put up the votes. we ll see shortly if they have the votes.
it, border security is important. we haven t gotten operational control of our border. we should. but we should do it in a smart way that leverages technology and manpower in order to ensure we re protecting our homeland. congressman aguilar, does your bill call for a wall to be built in mexico to pay for it? it does not. that piece of the campaign promise as we ve heard would now the happen. so then how are you going to get the president to sign it if the marker he put down in rejecting the senate version of this is that it s not what he campaigned on? the president s been all over the map on this. you heard senator mcconnell mention we don t have clear guidance while i appreciate productive conversations, with chief of staff john kelly earlier today on his team that was here up on the hill, you know, clearly we want to see more out of what the administration would like to see. in the absence of leadership, we have to show we re a coequal branch of government. it s obligation
say right out of his mouth. senator mazie hirono, thanks for your time tonight. aloha. joining me two members of the house who today introduced a competing daca and border security bill. congressman hurd, let me start with you. first of all, on the president s comments in that meeting, do you condemn, do you disavow those comments? yeah, i wasn t there in the meeting first off. i think any of those kinds of comments aren t helpful to creating an environment in which we can get things done. i m focused on working with my colleagues and that s why i ve been excited to work with pete aguilar on solving this problem. let s have a daca fix and let s have some strong border security. and get this done and move on to other issues. congressman aguilar, the house gop is already saying that house democrats such as yourself who the last time i checked and i could be wrong are in the minority in the house, i believe
plowing forward without the president today introducing the bipartisan bill that the president himself rejected. this agreement gives president trump every single penny that he asked for. for border security in his budget request. almost $1.6 billion for construction on the border. of barriers and all sorts of fences and whatever else is needed even walls. this was not easy. we came to this agreement and we sent it over and had it drafted. it will be introduced this afternoon. the original three sponsors on the republican side will be joined by three more. without a spending deal, the government will shut down friday at midnight. without a daca deal, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers face possible deportation after march 5th thanks to president trump s decision to end daca. today, capitol police arrested 82 people seeking to prevent the deportations in the rotunda of