Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredericka witfield. Right now were watching on capitol hill lawmakers on the house floor with a potential Government Shutdown less than 12 hours away. Theyre now trying to discern whether a proposed lastditch effort measure to keep the Government Funding will be something theyll be voting on momentarily. Right now were looking at pictures of House Members voting on trying to get extra time to look at this latest measure before it goes to vote. House speaker Kevin Mccarthys latest plan is a 45day Spending Bill that would allow the government to continue working for at least 45 days while they try to work things out. Lauren fox is joining us from capitol hill. Priscilla alva rez is tracking potential responses from the white house. Lauren, democrats say they need more time before making any decisions on this plan . Reporter yeah. What youre seeing play out on the floor is a delay tactic by House Democrats. They a
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
and then abruptly canceled the morning news conference they typically have up here after these morning meetings with the republican conference. republicans who were in that room described it as a fairly unimpressive effort here for leadership to sell their own members on the idea that they could pass something, send it to the president without the border wall money, without disaster money, which is something we re now hearing that republicans want to see in this bill. thi things are in disarray. republican leaders just left the floor heading back towards speaker ryan s office not discussing anything of what their plan is at this point. the senate has acted. the ball is in the house s court to figure out what, if anything, they can pass to send to the president. jake sherman, i ll speak slowly because i know we ve got a camera out so there we. jake, what are you hearing from your sources there on the hill about the possibility of the lower chamber taking this up today? caller: i t
so if there is anybody right wearing the bulls-eye right now on their back and under excruciating pressure, it s her. let s go to the hoboken case for a second there, mr. coffey. and that s this question of whether it is a crime to basically punish somebody with a denial of state disaster funds if they don t play ball with you on a real estate deal for people you care about, some project for whatever reason are interested in, they say i m not going to back you now because i don t think it s part of our development plan here, balanced growth, et cetera. and they say, well, the governor says if this happened, the lieutenant governor said no disaster money for you, buddy. well, i think here there is a much clearer picture of what a federal crime might be. you can t in effect use federal money to try to hit up a state official or local official to help a private developer. but it s a question of proof. and right now what we have could turn into a she said versus they said.
wearing the bulls-eye right now on their back and under excruciating pressure, it s her. let s go to the hoboken case for a second there, mr. coffey. and that s this question of whether it is a crime to basically punish somebody with a denial of state disaster funds if they don t play ball with you on a real estate deal for people you care about, some project for whatever reason are interested in, they say i m not going to back you now because i don t think it s part of our development plan here, balanced growth, et cetera. and they say, well, the governor says if this happened, the lieutenant governor said no disaster money for you, buddy. well, i think here there is a much clearer picture of what a federal crime might be. you can t in effect use federal money to try to hit up a state official or local official to help a private developer. but it s a question of proof. an right now what we have could turn into a she said versus they