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This sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with growing pressure on the u. S. Congress to avoid a crippling u. S. Government shutdown this week. Time is running out. Lawmakers now have just six days to pass a Spending Bill to fund the government. Federal agencies have already started the formal process of preparing for a shutdown. If that happens, millions of federal workers could have their paychecks withheld until a deal is reached. But with the clock ticking, it is clear House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy doesnt have the votes to pass a stopgap funding bill and House Republicans are engaged in Open Warfare Over who is to blame for the stalemate. The hold outs keep saying to Kevin Mccarthy, dont bring bipartisan bills to the floor. We dont want you to use democrat votes to try to avert a shutdown. But theyre using democrat votes to try to cause a shutdown. These individuals, these republican hold outs are voting with nancy pelosi. We should have separate single subject Spending Bills. K
dependent if they are tied to the unions. and theatrical performances can continue. and now, we are joined by melissa wagner, and three weeks before this happened, the president of s.a.g. fran drescher said that things looked good and they would reach an agreement, and what happened? what happened that both sides did not come to terms whatsoever. and yesterday, we saw fran drescher saying that the actors are the victims, and saying that they are offended by the deal that was presented to them, and clearly, the both sides are not on the same page whatsoever. then if you are looking at the studio side, they are saying that we have given a historic deal, and obviously, that is not what the actors believe. a big component of this is a.i. of course, a strike comes down to money, and to pay pay, but in this changing errof the
the background actors, and one of the proposals in there from the studio side that pertains to a.i. is that background actor show up to set, and their face is scanned, and they are paid the day rate and they don t show up again. the day rate for the union is around $200, and if this is what is in the proposal, it means that a background actor is paid $200, and their face is scanned, and they don t know up again. these sets of hollywood is full and full of extras, and any time you see people on the sidewalk or sitting in the restaurant, and a.i. can essentially take scary, and a scary possible reality for all of the actors, and many of them who can make their entire living annually just off of being a background actor. it is important that the a-list stars that we all know, it is not going to affect them financially, but there are
resume on monday. back to you. thank you very much. and it s a really good point that it s not just the actors, it s everybody that surrounds the production who are out of work as well. dominic, i want to talk about the studio side of things. we re not getting that at the moment. we heard a lot from fran drescher, we heard from dominic. tell me what the studio s argument is here. basically their point is, and by the way, matching stripes day today, very nice for a summer friday. basically their point is, look, business is evolve, uncertainty, and we re not making the money we think we should make. linear tv is doa. we done have the money to give you the money, the people who make our shows. we don t have the money to give it to you. now, whether or not you believe that. that s the miracle of hollywood accounting. let me put up the top ten