Editorial report im Paul Gigot Funding Set to lapse at midnight lawmakers on capitol hill are scrambling to avoid a Government Shutdown. With the house voting on a clean, 45stop Gap Funding Bill in which was a major shift for speaker Kevin Mccarthy lets go right to Congressional CorrespondentAishah Hasnie live on capitol hill with the latest. Reporter i can tell you Speaker Mccarthy is beaming right now. He absolutely has a victory in passing this 45day clean cr. He actually came over right before the vote and whispered in my ear and said look what the senate just did did you see what the senate just did and he was smiling and what he was talking about was that the senate, Senate Republicans leader mcconnell had basically decided to take a step back, back off, and let the house move forward with its cr. And that was important because House Democrats were trying to stall a vote on this so that they could wait and allow senate to take up their cr. So it really did work out for Speaker Mccarthy able to get enough votes for the 45day cr this includes i believe Disaster Funding and it does not include Border Security and it does not include ukraine funding. The senate cr that we anticipated would be voted on at least procedurally today did include 6 billion in ukraine funding so it looks like now they have backed off. I just spoke to Senator Mullin who came over here to watch what was happening on the house floor. And he told me that it was really the white house at the very last minute that made a phone call to House Democrats and told them you know what just take the deal and thats where we saw the shift in all of a sudden where they were stalling. They went ahead and voted and a large majority of democrats voted for this cr. All right aishah thank you very much very informative bring in our panel dan he henninger ad kim strassel looks like the immediate crisis may be over here on the shutdown. But we still have to see what the senate does. But what do you make of speak or mccarthy shift to open this up to get democratic votes to keep the government open . Well he did the only thing he could do paul. Look cognitive thats been coming out of a handful of republicans on the right is really something to behold on the one hand they kept saying all we want toed is work through Appropriation Bill and passed four of them and there are eight to go but at the same time they refuse to vote for any cr that would actually give them time to do that. And they scuttled even the negotiations that mccarthy has been giving them to give them more provisions like more spending cuts thing of the border and kept saying no to everything. And so in the end you know theyre losers here and that mccarthy in the end had to go for a clean cr and democrats for help and government will stay open thats good for the country but these guys that just had dug their heels in. This is what happens when you wont get onboard with republican unity, and you end up with situations like. Dan, what do you expect the senate to do pass this luges like the white house behind it so mcconnell is certainly behind it and even if this bill doesnt have ukraine aid, i assume hell come back later and try to get that. I think it is likely that senate will pass it for sure and the reason is the subject on the table, i mean, we have to take the conservative Caucus Members at their word. They said we were elected to cut federal spend okay we get that. What have we been talking about for the past week not federal spending but talking about shutting down the government. That has been the subject and everyone understands and if you shut down government you are the party that gets blamed. And the extraordinary white house, white house made this call because they thans too. Republicans were in an excellent position they have been joe biden, weakest incumbent president in living memory his numbers are underwater on the economy, his numbers are underwater on spending. That should be the subject that the republicans are putting in front of the american people. Not shutting down the government. Of course could have paid a price bill have they not supported what mccarthy offering because of what you cant pay the military sample. But mccarthy is now taking a risk Political Risk up for his future because there are a lot of people not a lot of but a handful in his conference who will not like this. They wanted to shut down the government. What do you make of that risk . Look thats always been the risk from the beginning of these negotiations. Right, they were threatening mccarthy and i think that he played the only hand said he could play and also with that hand dan alluded to it. He put pressure on the Senate Democrats because then, the key is not to have the hot potato of the shutdown in your lap. Right at the end of the day, an he put it to them are they really going shut down the government over ukraine aid in so i think he played it very well. Kim, what is the what are the republicans hold out want . What are they looking for . No one knows paul thats the problem. A lot of them want headlines and thats the really unfortunate aspect of this. Were not talking about have many here but enough when you have a four Seat Majority as mccarthy has you have toen will to all of them and i think theyve done themselves real damage, though. And in that theyve really got a lot of resentment up from the rest of their caucus who watched Kevin Mccarthy over past couple of weeks dance and say what more can i get you and more do you need and they put together a giant cr that would have additional provisions that conservatives said they really wanted, and then when it came up to a vote on friday 22 of them voted against it again. So if you cant get to yes then you have to go to plan b. And we still dont know what they want because they also just kept moving the goal post all along again you have to come to conclusion what they wanted was their name in headline not necessarily to get something done that would be helpful to the republican goal is dan said of Cutting Spengdzing in the end. And dan nancy pelosi former speaker came out and said, dont democrats advise them dont save Kevin Mccarthy speakership with this. Looks like she was overruled by white house which unked that consequence of a shutdown, though, it would hurt republicans would also hurt the president a potentially the economy. Because a week or so ago it was nancy pelosi who was giving a very tipid endorsement of joe biden himself. So i think the white house is decided nancy is no longer speaker they have a deal with players that are out there. Paul is that smart or should they let mccarthy stew here . Smart on the part of the white house because shutdown thing is like bill said a hot potato and they just didnt want to get tagged with it. Paul panel thank you well be right back after this short break. Paul race to avoid a Government Shutdown now in the hands after the senate after house passed a 45day stopGap Funding Bill moments ago lets go Aishah Hasnie now live on capitol hill. Reporter hi there well the house has now adjourned until monday. And Speaker Mccarthy just passed by me on his way to his office, and i asked him how do you feel . He said he feels very good. Hes absolutely beaming because now his job is done. This continuing resolution this clean cr now moves over to the senate. Its in their hands, and from what im told by senators, it will move very quickly, and it will pass very easily before the midnight deadline to fund the government and now questions are swirling here on capitol hill. About what happens to speak or mccarthys job, of course, weve been watching congressman matt gaetz make threat after threat that he would file a motion to vacate if speaker Mechanic Mccarthy moved on moving resolution and receive support from in thes exactly what happened here moments ago. Matt gaetz actually tried to speak on the house floor as this vote was going on. But then they gaveled out so he was not able to and now every reporter on the hill is looking for him to get a definitive answer as to is he going to or not will he actually follow through with his threats . And file a motion to vacatesome we know that Speaker Mccarthy has been asked multiple times today and hes basically been a telling gaetz and whoever else try it go ahead, go for it and hes not worried about it. If it were to happen, there are questions about whether or not democrats would pitch in with republicans to save mccarthys job and come through again as they have done today. Theyve been sort of not giving us a yes or no on that. Basically saying that they would make that decision they would cross that bridge once hay got there. Back to you. Aishah thank you bring back our Panel Bill Drama assume Senate Passes this and government stays open. The republicans rebels decide that they want to Depose Mccarthy is that their goal all along . It looked like because theyre not getting anything else they want as dan mentioned lower spending which i agree with. Thats not coming out of this. So i think a lot of his just animosity it is so mistaken because seldom do you place a leader in a fight and new guy is strong or. You always think that new guy is going to be stronger with fewer the problems than you always get a weaker guy. And the irony is that if matt gaetz is successful, hes a Attacking Mccarthy for getting democrat votes and democrat votes to do it and it is okay if you are voting against your own leader. But not okay on a bill . Yeah it seems like Holdout Strategy here is to hold their breath until they pass out. You know, what do they hope to achieve as kim said is it all clear and kind of a personal against mccarthy strategy doesnt make a lot of sense because weve got a divided government. President and senate run by democrats you have to compromise. Best way you have leverage is if you hold together in the house. You pass the spending bills you go to conference and compromise and some victory thats the way because you have the leverage of the majority of the house. If as soon as you dont have that leverage youve got nothing. And youve got a House Democrats to get to the support and they have, and then you have to give them something. Thats right. So the question at this point is whether matt gaetz is going to blank or going to go through with this because i think at the moment he looks to be in a fairly weakened position, i mean the idea was they were going to shut down the government Kevin Mccarthy said basically make my day and through the and now question is will gaetz get support from other conservatives to go forward with trying to take down Mccarthy Speakership which would precipitate a bloody civil war inside the Republican Party and nothing but destructive to republic. Theres no Public Relations upside to this. So i think pressure is going to build on matt gaetz to step aside at this point and give up trying to overthrow Speaker Mccarthy. Kim how do you read it . What are your sources in the house caucus telling you . Well, look i think that these rebels as you were as it were have really put themselves in a weakened position here as dan said. They have inspired a great deal of animosity from the vast majority of the rest of their caucus because regs of the caucus is working diligently day and night to try to figure out some way to bring them onboard to be told no, no, no and its become very clear to everyone this is about having reporters run after them and be the in spotlight. And that it is against again against mccarthy so youre going to see a lot of pressure on these guys to stand down. And you know, on the one hand you can say what do eve this to lose right . You know they can go out they continue to get the headlines, on the other hand there can real consequences a member of being entirely alienated from everyone else in your caucus because of your blind mindedness. Who else would want to be speaker . You dont want the job bill . No. As you pointed out in your editorial like the fifth wife of Henry The 8th such headache. And you would have the threat of nonunity people going to Jurngdz Mine You i dont know why anyone would do it. Just asking for trouble, i mean, theyve been trouble for every speaker weve had recently and who else would want to take it dan briefly any nominees . Paul gigot you know, im not that stupid. Paul made Career Mistakes but not big enough with that one. Much more ahead as scramble to the Shutdown Heads to the senate if anything happens in this hour well bring it to you but first the republican divide on full gley on wednesday nights debate as candidates sparred over future aid and whats at stake for the u. S. 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Its not just possible. Its happening. Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. Paul growing divide within the Republican Party on ukraine was on full display wednesday night as republican president ial candidates sparred over whether to continue support for kyiv and its ongoing effort to defend itself against russias invasion. Take a look. Were not going to have a blank check. We lo not have u. S. Troop and were going to make the europeans do what they need to do. Our National Vital interest is in the degrading the Russian Military by degrading Russian Military we keep our homeland safer. China is the real enemy and were driving china further into chinas arms we need a republican peace plan to end this. Paul were back with our panel, so dan on that do Ukraine Exchange who do you think got the better it . I think that everyone except Vivek Ramaswamy and ron desantis got the better of it. I mean thats basically your divide here. Mr. Ram swam is made that explicit and with intensity that i find a little bit weird. I dont quite understand why ramaswamy is extent on selling out ukraine but hes clearly on doing that but desantis suggest that we ought to continue supporting them. But the europe should take the lead or 90 which is completely unfeasible. While the rest of them, seem to recognize that this is something that is in its second year. The idea that were driving russia to hands of china Chris Christie maybe said it best china iran, north korea are all supporting russia in this enterprise in ukraine. And that threatens nato existence and simply wouldnt stop there. So yeah theres a divide in the Republican Party. There are conservatives who want to pull back. But i think at least most of those candidates are describing the reality of the ukraine war exist right now, rather than trying to pretend that it will just float away as mr. Ramaswamy seems to think. Who do you think helped him or herself . I think the ones from my view that came out the best were nikki haley at least at the beginning of the debate and i think that Governor Desantis did pretty wellhead a couple of moments on prolife issues on education, so forth he was able to be strong. But one thing that was lacking in all of them and especially i thought in desantis when he talked about a nation in decline. I dont think that really works. He did a great job in florida. And if you go back to reagan yeah it is not morning in America Reagan didnt say mourning in america only in 84. But implicit in reagan message is we can do better were not declined we just took a couple of wrong turns and reagan always said our best days are still ahead. Yints i didnt get the sense that have kind of message coming through. And i would like frankly just one of the candidates, i mean, tim scott talked about fixing head start. I would like him to say Governmen