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On those very key and delicate issues. eric: so what does that mean with no real progress? has the president dug a hole for himself? will he potentially delay this through next month when the democrats take congress? what could happen? there have been so many of these budget showdowns in recent years whether it was republicans or democrats in congress, president trump, president obama before him. usually they find some way to work it out in the closing hours, even minutes. but this time they are at a real hard impasse. president trump made that southern border wall a key campaign plank. he doesn t want to back off. democrats are saying, no way. probably they will find some way to push this at least into the new year, into january, maybe til next year. but that probably won t happen until the last possible hours, even minutes. eric: well, they could approve some temporary spending extensions, that sort of thing? that s right. they could just hold federal ....
Bring before the senate. reporter: bunning wanted the senate to find offsetting savings to pay for the $10 billion in temporary spending extensions. if we can t find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this u.s. senate. reporter: but the democrats refused and the democratic leader warned those relying on unemployment benefits will be hurt. last night, more than a million of them, people throughout america went to sleep relying on those benefits, woke up without confidence they ll be there now. reporter: actually both democrats and republicans already agreed to move on to consideration of a long-term fix which would restore the unemployment money and postpone a scheduled cut in reimbursement for doctors who treat medicare patients. it s likely to pass this week and in the meantime, no one really expects an interruption of unemployment benefits. there might be delay in federal paperwork, but the odds of unemploy ....