government is worst the risk to save the jobs in kansas. reporter: they want to vote on a proposal blocking the covid vaccine mandates on will slow roll the temporary funding measure the house passed this evening keeping the government open through february 18 and provide 7 billion for afghan evacuees. most republicans don t see any advantage to this looming shutdown. i don t see this hostage as one that we should take. you know, i m certainly against the mandate but i m not so sure that s the right way to go. reporter: president biden said the government will stay open. there s a plan in place unless somebody decides to be totally erratic, and i don t think that will happen. reporter: but the standoff could force a brief shutdown, temporarily halting pay to hundreds of thousands of government workers and funding to agencies battling the coronavirus, just as a new variant is rattling nerves. what kind of message does it send to the american people that even keeping the gove
been awarded. billions of dollars at stake right now, a lot of jobs. tell our viewers what just happened. wolf, really $5 billion at stake with this krfrt. who will build the next-generation refueling tanker? it was america s boeing offered up a verse based on the 767 going up against the european area naughtic defense, a european consortium. they were using a model after the airbus. boeing has won this contract. this is huge for the folks who are in washington state and kansas. 11,000 jobs at stake in washington. 7,500 jobs in kansas, but if you total in and factor in all of the indirect jobs across the united states. we are talking about 50,000 jobs. and also, wolf, the winner could get additional future contracts, a much, much bigger prize worth $100 billion. this really is, in fact, the