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I give high marks to everyone for saying let the appropriators in the room get an agreement and then take it to the floor and see if we can pass both houses. are republicans willing to give democrats something in return for coming up on the $1.3 billion figure? you know washington, compromise is about horse trading. there have been discussions of permanent protection for daca. the president offered temporary protection. that didn t satisfy democrats. it was made moot by the supreme court decision on that. are republicans offering something back to democrats? well, the homeland bill is a very large appropriation bill. i would say yes. there is a tremendous amount of common ground. the coast guard is funded. we have republicans and democrats who both support and should support the coast guard. so there is flexibility in a lot of areas. one area where i really think it s dangerous is democrats have tried to reduce the amount of ....
Mind. i m going to make sure we have a good, strong down payment on a physical barrier. today we heard in that room very few absolute and that s a good thing. all the parties were saying this is what we need to. this is what we don t want. it was good. he was flexible. neil: republicans aren t calling it, referring to it as a wall. i understand the democrats are refusing to name figures. you are both sort of doing the good general overview thing so far, right? yes, there s a lot of issues beyond the parochial issue of a physical barrier. we ve got the entire homeland bill. we have other appropriation bills where there are genuine, not only bipartisan but bicameral differences. there is differences between house and senate appropriators on some of the other bills we get to conference. it s part of a grand deal, a grand compromise. i think we can get it done. i was pleased about the fact that the tone in the room today ....
This, republican senators who want this to end. why not do it, congressman, until february, to sign something at least to keep it going and continue to negotiate? what s wrong with that? there s nothing wrong with that. in fact, i think on your show before christmas, i recommended that the house pass the six appropriations bills and then a continuing resolution or a stopgap on the homeland bill. then between now and then, negotiate some border security enhancements in exchange for protection for the dreamers and the tps population. those are the temporary protective status, mostly el salvadorens. take care of those issues. by the way, if the president wanted $5.6 billion for fy-2019, why didn t he put it in his budget request? he didn t. he put in $1.6 billion. if this was sch a priority, why didn t mulvaney put it in? i don t understand this. answer that. why do you think why? do you think it s some sort of scheme or ....
Enough. i mean cory gardner, susan collins have spoken about. but there are other senators i know are very frustrated by this, republican senators who want this to end. why not do it, congressman, until february, to sign something at least to keep it going and continue to negotiate? what s wrong with that? there s nothing wrong with that. in fact, i think on your show before christmas, i recommended that the house pass the six appropriations bills and then a continuing resolution or a stopgap on the homeland bill. then between now and then, negotiate some border security enhancements in exchange for protection for the dreamers and the tps population. those are the temporary protective status, mostly el salvadorans. take care of those issues. by the way, if the president wanted $5.6 billion for fy-2019, why didn t he put it in his budget request? he didn t. he put in $1.6 billion. if this was such a priority, why didn t mulvaney put it in? i don t understand this. answer that. why ....