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The expense, real expense is not doing them. mark: so we have two massive spending bills but congress has a lot on its plate including the need to figure out whether or not they will fund the government pass the end of the month or kick the can down the road at temporary funding bill. also you have the treasury secretary urging congress not to wait any longer and to raise the debt ceiling. republicans have said democrats are going to need to do that on their own. democrats are saying they are working on it but they want republican help. mike as you well know, it s going to be a very interesting few weeks ahead. mike make oh, yes, quite a roller coaster ahead. mark meredith, thanks so much. joining to discuss the prospects of the president s agenda independent senior analyst carrie and democratic strategist matt bennett, welcome to both of you. thanks. thanks for having us. mike: on spending congress needs to get things done, government funding extension, raising the debt keeling in ....
Biden clearly breaks his pledge by raising taxes on low income and middle-class families, don t take my word for that. both the joint committee on taxation and the left-leaning policy center says tax increases on the middle class could start as early as next year. mike: fascinate, kevin brady from the great state of texas. good to see you, mike. thank you. mike: let s bring in pennsylvania congressman member of the house appropriation committee. mat cartwright, welcome. nice to be with you, great weekend in north eastern pennsylvania. we had a wonderful italian festival and meanwhile we are having halfway to st. patrick s parades and people are delighted to be out in the great weather and well, i m happy to join you here this afternoon. mike: fantastic, thanks. let s start with the pressing deadline to congress, how do you think it s best for lawmakers to pass a government funding extension and address the government s ability to borrow money the debt ceiling? ....
At some point. tonight s event is a political event. it s a political event for the white house and 34ri9 cal event for the democrats. but at the moment the ones in charge of the purse strings at democrats in the house of representatives and they re not giving him the money at least not now. mike, it s hard to see where a compromise is going to be. mitch mcconnell has largely been on the side lines. he said let nancy and chuck handle this, as he puts it. today he s front and center delivering the president s message. the president will do so tonight and we ll hear from the democrats. no question about it, mcconnell had a plan, he passed a government funding extension to keep everything up and running through february 8. passed it right before christmas. you had senators singing christmas care rolls thinking they had done their work and going home for christmas. then the president backed away from the deal. so there s been frustration from mcconnell and his allies in the senate who sa ....
Were at odds over the budget, the issue then was immigration, specifically the daca program for children to pathway to citizenship. it is 50-48 but they needed 60 yes votes and democrats have successfully blocked a 4-week government funding extension. the government reopened 3 days later with hard feelings across the political spectrum. progressive groups and dreamers are still fuming. what can the democratic leadership due to when the back? another brief shutdown a month later at lasted hours and with lawmakers kicking the issue down the road with another stopgap funding solution, time-tested ritual game of political chicken with familiar rhetoric and images. closed signs at national parks, and manned call centers and limited benefits, looking back at history most government ....
shannon: it looks like we will close out this week with a government shutdown. think back to the start of the year, we kicked things off with a couple of government shutdowns over issues similar to what is at stake tonight. we are just minutes from the point at which government funding runs out. midnight, january 19, lawmakers at odds again over the budget. the issue then was immigration. specifically, the daca program for those brought illegally as children to earn a pathway to citizenship. the vote is still open, 50-48, but the bottom line is they need 50 yes votes, and democrats have successfully blocked a four-week government funding extension peered the government reopened three days s across the political spectrum. progressive groups and so-called dreamers are still fuming peered what, if anything, ....