Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
continuing resolution pass until the 19th of next month without having something in there for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. why did this not make it into the cr. we stormed senator schumer s office with other congressional hispanic members and wanted as many senators to vote no as possible. it went from 14 to 32 in the last cr. but we were promised to lay it all down on the line january 19th when budget caps are discussed because the republicans desperately want military increases and our d.r.e.a.m.ers are number one. they are number one priority and inspiring america and we need to stand by these kids for our hispanic community and for millennials and they need to be the top priority going into january. you may have read the report in the new york times today, and nbc news has not independently corroborated this, verified this, and that are comments made about those
care. all right. dean baker, how do you see this playing out see qufrom the reso through the debt ceiling? to my mind. there is little doubt. we will see a continuing resolution pass. my guess its you don t get a shut down of the government. i will be shocked if you seep us come against the debt ceiling. these are losing propositions. it its bad politics, horrible policy. and you know end of the day. this is all about keeping people from getting health care which is not going to be terrible popular either. you know, a lot of theater. a lot of high tension. but i will really be shocked if we see a government shut down and very much shocked if we get to this debt ceiling. talk about the poll seal for, for a moment. we spent a lot of time on the politics here. i do want you to also concentrate on policies involved. both in the republican proposals on on, when they say a continuing resolution. they want to fund at a lower level than we are funding now. even, leaving the obama car
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