say they have reached a top line deal on spending. now they re going to raise to submit a final budget deal to avoid a government shutdown. hello everyone welcome to fox foxnews live i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hello eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. both sides have been working for weeks to reach an agreement. congress is a fast leasing fast approaching deadlines to avoid a shutdown for the persons in less than two weeks and the second in less than a month. meantime the pentagon is under pressure to explain why it took so long to reveal defense secretary lloyd austin was in the hospital. even president biden was for days for. the disturbing story is one of many coming out of washington for lucas tomlinson has the details he is live in wilmington, delaware were the president spend the weekend at his home there. we are covering two big stories this afternoon. first congressional leaders say they have reached an agreement on a top line budget that keeps the
somebody inside the military establishment that decided to do it this way but i am sure he will do better going forward as he said he would. white house officials say president biden spoke to his defense secretary at last night to wish him a speedy recovery and looks forward to him returning to the job in the pentagon. it was the secretary the b best. but like you and me i guess if you are sick you ve got to call in to work and tell them. that is right. that is right. lucas thank you. was a private in the u.s. army there would be a chain of command for. that is true thank you. arthel: it has been a brutal year for agents dealing with a record-breaking surge of migrants at our southern border. now dhs secretary mayorkas is heading to the action tomorrow. this comes just days before the house homeland security committee holds its first hearing on whether to move