you re watching fox & friends. he hasn t been on for a while. not expecting the question. it s his birthday today, i believe. meatloaf again? is that the answer to the trivia question. i think i might have given it away. scrap it right now. whoopsy daisy. hopefully i won t mess up the headlines. here they are right now. the senate stand-off over disaster is over, disaster aid, remember senators passed a deal to avert a government shutdown this weekend, the compromise strips away some spending cuts but provides less money for disaster relief than democrats wanted. quite frankly, i think this is a vindication of what republicans have been saying all along, before we spend the taxpayers money we should have a real accounting, a real accounting of what is actually needed. the bill is expected to pass the house next week and will keep the government running through mid november. than what s going to happen? we ll go through this all again. shocking confession from behind ba
that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the