mccarthy trying to get more hard-liners on his site. what kevin mccarthy will not admit to you although we all know this bill passing actually makes his life a little easier should he become speaker next year because you don t what conservatives wanted was a short-term spending can kicking the can to january, february so do this messy process with the republican house but republicans have always struggled with government funding. there are republicans who adamantly disagree with the levels. senate republicans have been generally more apt to negotiate with democrats than house republicans and house republicans if they were in charge, they were going to struggle to pass a big sweeping government funding legislation so this this gets something off of potential speaker mccarthy s plate but he is in a precarious position trying to lock up votes for speaker whether his members push him on spending priorities or house rules so he has to pick up support and find every little which wa
couple of week. in a way can come out against it but could be a gift to him like you said. it could be early christmas present. exactly. exactly. now, chuck schumer for his part, here s what he s saying. this omnibus is bold, ambitious and far reaching. it s not everything we would have wanted, of course. lots of when you re dealing in a bipartisan, bycammeral way, we can be proud of. is there anything you re surprised by? what s in, what s out, the ban on tiktok on government phones is in. the extension of the enhanced child tax credit, pandemic aid, priorities. i can imagine federal employees furiously looking at
the witnesses who were speaking to the committee and how donald trump himself, the committee says, was reaching out to some of the witness. exactly. now, for those of us who have covered various investigations into the former president over the past five or six years it s not terribly surprising this is the way they operate. but it was one of the really interesting and damning findings out of the committee s hearing yesterday but when it comes to the justice department the bar is really high for them which is why they ll have to look at all the evidence collected, they have a much higher standard to bring charges and to successfully bring a defense to evan s point about how this really is significant for congress because they were the victim of a crime here. there s also another side to that which is that his lawyers may now try to argue that this investigation that the justice department has tried so hard to argue is apolitical and now politicized. they ll try to argue, well, jack s
spending bill. that republican, kevin mccarthy, who could soon be the house speaker if he gets his way. any reason why he would want to i can t think of a reason at all. so you see the tweet up on your screen. so it comes after a group of 13 current and incoming gop house members threatened to thwart any policy priorities championed for those who vote for the omnibus. look at two of the things that i look at in the final package that s going to be passed by friday are the electoral counteract s inclusion and big chunk of ukraine funding and why are both of those in here when we re talking about a government shutdown bill? because it ain t going to happen once the republicans are in charge in the house and everybody knows that. what you re seeing with that mccarthy messaging kevin mccarthy trying to lock down the spe speakership. what does it set up? a big power contest between senate republicans and house republicans between kevin