deal with schumer? i do. reporter: now trying to avoid the same feat as speaker mccarthy, the first speaker ever ousted after he relied on democrats to help keep the government open. and at an overall level of $1.66 trillion, similar to the deal mccarthy and the white house agreed to last may. by the time we could even get back into d.c., he had negotiated the terms of our surrender on the issue. do you think he s up to the job? i think the problem is we didn t do the right thing up front, so we focused on who should be the next speaker, we focus on a person. reporter: in protests key hard liners stalled action in the house this week. now those members want johnson to back away from his deal and seek even deeper cuts while also imposing new immigration restrictions. moves that would almost certainly cause a shutdown. i do want to fund a government that s working against us. a week or two short term shutdown.
forward we are looking for the correct legislation, not just any legislation and we want bills moving forward that will cut spending like we said we would do. a $1.66 trillion monstrosity is not what we signed up for. we body checked the conference and said, let s get back in the room and figure out what we need to do. we are all in general agreement on on the same page, we have a razor thin majority and it is tough sledding. we have to negotiate against a senate and white house having no interest in containing spending. they want the special side deals, the backroom deals, we want to adhere to that and get it done, cut spending. if we do a cr through this year, we will spend $100 billion less and restore some order, defense will be okay, veterans will be okay, we will reduce bureaucracy. mike johnson was on fox saying, i agree with chip roy,
satisfy everyone. joining me live is kadia goba, she s the politics reporter for semafor. so the big number here, a $1.66 trillion agreement financing the federal government in 202a. just an agreement, not a bell. walk us through the details and maybe you can translate for us what this deal means. 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 they have been working on it. lucky said, this is something they are putting forth. there is an with speakerjohnson and with speaker johnson and majority with speakerjohnson and majority leader schumer over in the senate to fund 800 billion
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.
speaker johnson will likely need significant support from democrats to keep the government running. joining us now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, what s in this deal, and why is the house freedom caucus calling it a total failure? reporter: well, ana, to be clear, any deal that has even a modicum of it democratic support would likely be rejected by the house freedom caucus. that tends to be the way they operate. we do see a deal here where you do see compromise frobo republicans and democrats, especially when you track back to the deal that was hatched to avoid a government shutdown over the summer. you can see in ts plan that was released by the leaders in both the senate and the house last night, it s about a $1.66 trillion framework with the top line number of $1.5 trillion. it also has another $69 billion in domestic funding, $6 billion in they re going to cut in unspent covid funds, and they re also going to shift the irs cuts