agreed to with majority leader chuck schumer, this rebellion is coming from house conservatives, with more than a dozen of them voting to bring down this procedural step to show their dissatisfaction with the deal that was cut from speaker johnson. now this is a playbook they have used before. it s also a playbook they used against kevin mccarthy right after he cut the debt ceiling deal back at the end of may. this is a sign that they are frustrated. i just finished beaking with bob good, the leader of the house freedom caucus who told reporters that they have two demands, they want, as part of the spending bill to include border security and they also want it to include further spending cuts. the deal that was announced sunday by speaker johnson, in a dear colleagues letter included the fact that the spending deal was $1.59 trillion with $886 billion in defense, $704 billion in nondefense benefit than $69 billion in
speaker kevin mccarthy found himself in, not long ago, just several months ago. i mean, is mike johnson, speaker johnson, going to potentially face the same fate? are republicans going to try to oust him? last year, when the ranking member of the appropriations committee for democrats, she didn t vote for this bill because the side deals weren t written into the bill. that s actually, i think, part of the problem here. we only agreed and voted on and democrats and republicans supported a bill at $1.59 trillion. now they re going to blow it. we shouldn t do it. speaker johnson shouldn t do it. i think there s going to be some real conversations about what we need to do. does that include potentially moving to oust him from his job? again, that s not the road i prefer. you know, we have gone down the road. i didn t prefer to go down that road with speaker mccarthy. we need to figure out how to get this all done together. but it isn t good and there are a lot of my colleagues who ar
in defence and more than 700 billion in non defence measures. this is the top line from last year that was negotiated between kevin mccarthy and also obviously the senate. at $1.59 trillion. some hardliners are not going to be happy with this because they want the funding levels to be lower but i would say it is a win for overall congress because i think they can get this past. 0r because i think they can get this past. or at least pass it on the floor. on the floor. you think this could actually on the floor. you think this could actually pass - on the floor. you think this | could actually pass because on the floor. you think this i could actually pass because it has been going back and forth. we saw the previous speaker kevin mccarthy essentially ousted over some previous agreements over funding. ousted over some previous agreements overfunding. do ousted over some previous agreements over funding. do you think this will lay a solid framework now for republicans, democrats to wo
so the big number here, a $1.66 trillion agreement. it sjust an agreement, not a bill. walk us through the details and tell us how significant this agreement is. i d say it is pretty significant. as you mentioned, there is a january 19 funding deadline. the anticipation was that congress would not be prepared for this. they are showing way in advance that they have been working on it. like you said, this is something they are putting forth. there is an agreement with speakerjohnson and majority leader schumer over in the senate to fund 800 billion in defence and more than 700 billion in non defence measures. this is that top line from last year that was negotiated between kevin mccarthy and also obviously the senate. at $1.59 trillion.
government shutdown. but real questions remain whether lawmakers will be a able to pass pieces of legislation before january 19th,s which that first deadline. this was struck by mike johnson and chuck schumer. the two men agreeing on a $1.59 trillion topline spending level that includes $886 billion for defense spending and $704 billion for non-defense spe spending. there s $70 billion that could be allocated that was part of a side deal struck by president biden and then kevin mccarthy last spring. these overall figureses tracked very closely to the agreement reached when they came to that debt limit deal last year. a deal that rangeled a lot of house republicans. already there s been opposition expressed to the latest deal struck by leaders. the house freedom caucus expressing frustration with the