you should probably have this vote on bif by itself. i ve gotten confirmation that this whole thing did happen from a senior democratic aide on the hill. what was up with what congresswoman jayapal was doing if you have any insight into that? yeah. i mean, colleagues broke this conversation, this story. it seems like, you know, she was being clear about where her caucus stands, right? in trying to get the president to say to agree with them. and at this point we ve seen mostly that this white house has kind of been on the side of progressives when it comes to the process aspect of things, right? a lot of things got pulled out of that bill that progressives really wanted. obviously a lot of health care issues got pulled out, paid family leave pulled out and so what jayapal is trying to do is continuing to use the power that she has, use her caucus and say, no, this is what we want, because there s been a question
have the votes. reporter: progressive house members want firm commitments from their moderate counterparts in the senate on the much larger spending bill that would expand the social safety nelt and address the climate crisis. the speaker is a good vote counter. she knows where her caucus stands. the votes atlanta. reporter: the white house declining to say if joe manchin or kyrsten sinema have made clear their specific demands to the president. you can t just say if they ve actually told the president we ll let them speak for what conversations they ve had privately. we re not going to provide more detail from here. reporter: with almost no room for error, lawmakers must also vote on funding the government before money runs out on friday and raise the country s borrowing limit or risk a potentially catastrophic default. so far, neither party is budging. they want us to come along and authorize the borrowing to help pay for it. when we are totally oposed to
have seen now is three branches of government, equal branches of government that have oversight responsibilities. i don t want to put kerosene on fires already out there. let s get the facts. bill: there is plenty of kerosene on this one. i m trying to be one of the calm ones. bill: there are 31 democrats in your caucus that won in trump districts. if there is so much confidence it makes sense to the american people you go ahead and express the votes and then everyone knows where your caucus stands. is there a suggestion that perhaps you don t have the votes? to do it you don t until you do it. you can ask john mccain that at 2:24am when it came to healthcare. i have a different question for you. i want to get the truth. i think that is what we have to be careful about doing is getting the truth. that s what i m focused on and
members were extremely interested in the subject, and i personally couldn t handicap the outcome at this point, but we will certainly be voting on it. one thing that s not in debate in our conference is we really do think there s a crisis at the border. it doesn t seem to be any difference of opinion about that. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would not guess on the outcome of a potential vote in the senate and the president s emergency declaration. house democrats are set to deliver their first major rebuke of the president today. they re more confident in what s going to happen. they are expected to pass a vote to block president trump s national emergency declaration. after that, it will go to the senate, where mitch mcconnell will find out where his caucus stands. the recently empowered house democrats flexing their legislative muscle is one thing. perhaps more interesting,
on the congressional hispanic caucus, you re a member of that caucus, that they re pushing back against this idea, drafting a memo that rejects calls to abolish the federal agency. tell us where you stand. well, i m on the border. i don t know where the caucus stands, but i.c.e., we have a lot of very good agents that protect our country and have a job to do. so i don t know that abolishing the agency is the brightest move. i think we need to be careful with the policy that they have. i think we should be more concerned about the policy coming from the top down. obviously if we have a rogue agent, he needs to get fired or reprimanded. but abolishing the agency, we here in texas, for example, import have more than $350 billion of trade with mexico that we deal with here on our border. and i.c.e. is at the front of this. so they do a lot of good work. there are a lot of good agents.