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Are more in line with what was already brokered. That is in line with a deal that was already brokered by Biden Kevin Mccarthy last year. I think after a certain point, people feel like the writing is already on the wall. Some conservatives have already written off these bills before they came out because they dont like the top line. S just a time where republicans have at least some shot able to shape government funding■k in some way and having an influence on crafting these levels in a way that is different from the democrats last they controlled congress. But there is this understanding that they are not going to get all of this in. It seems some conservatives are giving johnson grief but we do see what when we talk about Homeland Security funding. It remains to be seen. Host go ahead and stcaplenty gn capitol hill. Taking a look at the week ahead. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independent, 202 7488002. Stated the union is thursday evening. What we know at this point, has there been any assertive telegraphing this far ahead from the white house . Guest i think there is this expectation that democrats are hoping that the president is focusing in some way on trying to communicate legislative achievements. Being more effective in communicating bipartisan infrastructure bill, inflation reduction act. All these increases for the irs, how has that helped Impact Service . I think they also feel like the president could be doing a better job when it comes to the economy. There are a lot of people, of course americans are happy that we are not in the recession currently but at the same time i sing inflations. How do you communicate these gains . Host theres also all the pageantry that we watched, the other stuff gt night. When it comes to members bringing highprofile guests, have you heard anything on that front or perhaps sitting with a member of the other party or wearing a certain color for a certain cause . Have you heard about any of those efforts yet . Guest but im sure that will come out in the next few days. I think a lot of focus is on vernment funding and they are already trying to line up what passage might look like in the house and then the senate i definitely expect more of those details in the days ahead. Host super tuesday is tuesday, stated the union is thursday. Government running deadline friday. Lots going on, taking your questions here in washington. This is edward out of michigan, democrat, your up first. Caller yes, i was wondering a couple of things. Is this the longest time i guess in months that weve gone without a budget . The budget was supposed to have in past last fall. You e suppis this the record loe gone without a budget . Secondly, the budget is supposed to be divided up and passed in 14 different spending bills connecticut many. That hasnt happened eitr. They g spending bills and they havent. Theyve only gotten four or five. Maybe you can explain the budget process and are we ever going to get a real budget passed . Guest technically, congress is supposed to past 12 annual funding bills on all of the various different federal government operations. The senate did pass the funding bills. The house did not. But the house did pass more bills on the floor. I thk it nas just a lot of difficulty with the fact that these votes are more partisan in nature and you have such a narrow margin publicans in getting these off the board. On the senate side, partly if you are a republican due to whatever suspicion you have, sae long that congress has gone. I am pretty sure we had stopgap bills before which essentially sees the funding of the previous and we cant work out an agreement on a new funding level. Host chart that we come back to again and again here. This is from the Pure Research service. This is a chart of Congress Passing its spending bills, 12 Appropriations Bills by october 1. The line, the more spending bills have passed, getting up to 100 here means the Congress Passed all 12 by october 1 in that year. A last timeha 1996, and you can see a very few number of spending bills passed in recent years. Usually it becomes an omnibus package or as you are saying, a fullyear continuing resolution. But it was 1996, the the Congress Passed all 12 spending bills by october 1, that deadline they are given each year. A chart we will refer to again in the future. This is glenn, independent. Caller good morning. Yes, hi. What is your question . Caller i think the mainconcernt the upcoming vote on the budget. The main problem that every time you keep raising it, you keep raising zg it is like using a credit card and raising the limit. I think it is a major thiha you have to balance your budget, if the debt under control. You had biden and trump and they both tremendously raise the deficit, keep borrowing money. The problem is this is the future of the country. What you can do is a economic problems here. So for the future of the country it is really not biden or trump. That is basically what i have to say. u. S. National debt currently at and counting. Members talking about getting the debt control right now. Cast that is been a major focus certainly of the republican congress. ■i jux÷st think they have very different ways. Republicans are always at least focused a lot on bringing down overall democrats focus more on the tax side. More funding should go to areas like the irs, focused on going after what they say are wealthy tax cheats, or corporations that have found poles that maybe are not accessible to the average american. Some experts say that a combination of some changes on thx side and enforcement on the tax side in conjunction with the bank would probably be more effective approach. But the bill that is expected to be passed, the funding bill that are coming too, it is more in by biden and mccarthy. That would help reduce projected deficits. It remains to be seen. Host 460 billion package this week that we are focusing on. Six agencies that are the department of transportation, energy, agriculture, interior, housannouncer we are going to e this part of washington journal, as we take you live in out of the institute of Global Politics womens initiativeon n reproductive rights. Secretary of state hillary rema. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We are going to talk about how reproductive rights are under attack both here in the u. S. , was happening globally which is probably a nicer story, with these three amazing women that have a lot of skin in this game, sarah casey, the assistant professor of population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of public health, director of the raise initiative. Alexis Mcgill Johnson, president and ceo of the planned parenthood action fund. And Jennifer Klein, assistant to the president and director of the white house gender policy council. I want you to set the scene of where we are in the. S. The decision in 2020 to overturn 50 years of precedent is something we care a lot about. We have been deep in the archives look at all the stories first time around. V we have witnessed this all out assault onepcte rights in the u. S. Which is maybe not surprising but at least terrifying. What are you hearing on the ground . From patients . Can you set the scene for us in new york in on the livestream . Absolutely. Its an honor to be here. I wish we were in franceignow, d freedom that they explicitly put into the constitution today. Here in the states, it is incredibly dire for so many patients. 21 states now have abortion bans. That means 1 in 3 are living in states where they no longer have access to abortion care in the state. It means they are traveling significant miles out to get access and care ■ or incomplete or being completely denied access altogether. Abortion bans have made pregnancy more dangerous. The story of kate who tried to get her abortion in texas, she had a medical condition in december, they are willing to criminalize miscarriage, as we know now, we thought they might actually be more humane, just looking at the story of Brittany Watts in ohio, she experienced a miscarriage and was reported by her nurse. And she faced time and incarceration. The idea that we have now come ■■ two weeks ago, the Supreme Court in alabama determined thatembry. Frozen embryos are now children. The Ripple Effect of abortion bans, not justs to Abortion Health care, but miscarriage, ivf,jb we are no longer able to make a decision as to when or now how. We are seeing the fatigue on the providers side. Many of you mahalast year i y actually was a 10 decline of obgyn going into banned states. We are seeing a ripple out of have high risk and are an exrience at criminalization and states in states which could carry life which could carry prison sentences or loss of licenses. In georgia, they only had 50 of their counties with ob gyns in them. Just the infrastructure that i ■ really losing access to talent, the impact its having on as providers is pretty significant right now. You mentioned a couple of stories. Planned parenthood have been good at getting them out but there are many stories we dont hear. The Ripple Effect you talk about, its really economically, what happens to the women that cant afford to travel . A story just from the planned parenthood this summer, one young woman an appointment in South Carolina, and in South Carolina that day the six week ban went in she had to travel back to georgia, she made an appointment later in florida, a few weeks later, and by the time she could get the appointment and the money, because every time shes making these appointments, shes got to get childcare, time off work, money up for a trip. She got to florida the same day that the ban went into effect there. Just after. And she didnt realize because of the chaos and the confusion. She quickly had to get on a plane and fly to california because she had now gone too far into being able to get access to a medication abortion. And just the toll, the indignity of having to go through that experience, those are the stories we hear. Would abortion funds, access to funds planned parenthood can offer, we were able to support. But that is office up a story reaching everyone. There are plenty of stories that we see of forced pregnancies. Jen, how ■ impta issue for the administration . Its incredibly important to the american people. Not just women but particularly women. From the day the jobs decision came down Dobbs Decision came wn, they were quite clear that this was completely contrary to what people want. The vast majority, not a majority, but a vast majority believe that roe was rightly decided and it shouldnt have been overturned. And so, day one of dobbs, preparing for it, but the president went out and talked about how the only way to restore the right that was lost as to pass federal legislation that would restore roe. He has been clear eyed and visionary about that. I have to say personally, i was frustrated when he said that. He said, is going to take a while. In has to the now. It has to be now. We have to do everytng we can in the states, alexis just vividly■i described what is happening. The states are the frontlines, so another piece of what we have done, i can talk about the executive action we have taken, but working with states and state legislators, country and what they can do not only to help citizens of their own state but of states living with the abortion bans in place. What was the reaction to judgment two weeks ago . How did the administration take that . Alexis started to talk about it. You need to first take a minute to think about what is happening on the ground. You have patients who are literally some in the middle of g in vitro fertilization who do not know whether they can have their embryos transplanted. People w embryos they have already produced, that are waiting. So, the reaction was this is, first of all, completely predictable, as a result of■uhe chaos and confusion that was created when roe was overturned. But also a shock. First they wanted to take away the right of when and whether to have a child. Now they are taking away the right of how you are going to have it. You just said that. I think, you know, we first went after the right to abortion, they went after the right■ to contraception, and now the right to use ivf or other fertility ie scenario on whats next . Its terrifying. I think weve seen many ofagait to point out this is all at4 direct consequence, completely predicable and direct onsite of the overturning of roe v wade. We know who is responsible for that. There are things we can do this is what we are doing in the administration. Number one, protecting access to medication abortion. Number two, protecting access to contraception. Number three, protecting patient privacy. Many patients are concerned they will be prosecuted. Their doctors will be prosecuted. We have tools and federal laws to protect the most health information. We are using those. Protecting Patient Safety and security when they Seek Services whether that is picking up a prescription at a pharmacy because the exciting news last week is that two major Retail Pharmacy are going to make misepristone available in its like a little win. I think it is worth pointing out, they are more than little wins. The biggest win is to pass igfederal legislation but there are things we can do. We now see they have gone too far. Legislature falling over themselves to try to pass a piece of legislation presumably even week. Questions about if you can remove your embryos from alabama, continue to those quest answered. Things we can do in the motivation is there because people are mad and taking action. Samantha barry did you different people getting mad over alabama versus dobbs . Jennifer klein yes, to your point, it is beyond. Abortion has been a fairly controversial issue in the united states, the Strong Majority of americans, including independents and republicans actually believe there should be the right choices about your own body yourself and i think we have crossed the line where this is no longer an issue where people are dramatically opposed to each other on have different views, there is a strong middle where people agree and i think what is happening in alabama the court case which makes it seem like we live in a really motivates people who maybe were not paying attention. Samantha barry sarah, your work focuses on sexual and Reproductive Health in countries where that healthd by war or nal disaster. What is happening in the u. S. , how is that having a Ripple Effect . Sarah casey unfortunately wesel south. It threatens the local advancements in the Sexual Reproductive Health and rights. We are seeing a lot of funding from the religious right going to fund antichoice movements in the global south and they use seminal tactics, let us take kenya for example, their growing influence of the antirights movement in kenya has slowed progress on a drug that issed and there were High Court Rulings that affirmed abortion is a fundamental and directed parliament to enact reforms to make it accessible after\from the antichoice movement it has stayed the ruling which also partly relied on roe v. Wade in the ruling and in addition they have trying to put in a Family Planning model thawoulenact the framework [inaudible] in accordance with the local laws but antioichoice movements largely funded ended up causing that to be withdrawnfrom the ree u. S. Samantha barry i am irish and grew up in ireland and i was so proud to grow up in a country that finally gave women there access to reproductive rights and i wrote that i was terrified i lived in a country that was taking it away. Where is our standing globally when it comes to this . They enshrined into their constitution guaranteed freedom for women to an abortion. The rest of the world, most of them, seems to be inrward and we are going back. How does that affect our standing in the world . Sarah casey it is really a concern and i hear about it when i go to the u. N. And speak with representatives from other countries and they say first of all what is happening over all s have Ripple Effects in other countries. I will say hopefully in the last 30 years, 60 countries have taken action on reproductive rights and all of them other than four have taken steps forward. The four sadly are the u. S. , el salvador, nicaragua, poland. So we are not in Great Company but the rest of the world really is making steps in the right direction and we have very s ba. I think our standing is questionable but i think time we future, i remain somehow optimistic that we will see for a devotion in this country, c Forward Motion in this country, rtly because of the anger and shock when the Dobbs Decision came down. Samantha barry alexis, you spent a lot of time on the campaign trail talkingwhat has h reproductive rights for Ballot Initiatives . Alexis Mcgill Johnson every time reproductive rights are on the ballot, we win. E] kansas, kentucky, wisconsin. State that might be purple, states that are clearly supportive of reproductive freedom. Jennifers argument around polling data is so important ■dbecause 85 of americans belie we should have reproductive freedom and yet to have 21 states rollback those rights, what it really does is help people understand our democracy is not functioning. So all the ways in which we have seen reproductive rights mov correlates to the number of countries that are descending into fascism and the way in which the authoritarian tendencies in this country are coming to bear. And that i think has been the most interesting thing i have the campaign trail, the fact that there is a reason why abortion and democracy where the closing arguments in 2022 and why i imagine they will be the closing argubecause it helps pee understandt democr■ ■yst level,s going to matter who your prosecutor and d. A. , it will matter who your state Supreme Court candidate is. Hows on the state Supreme Court right now in new york state . The ways in which we have seen the rage fuel and drive is so important and to go back to the conversation around ivf, the opposition has been so successful separating abortion from reproductivhealth care. They have tried separating it in this way, i only really want an abortion. What we have seen now is pregnancies are more dangerous, we see miscarriage be criminalized and now with ivf, people are understanding that abortion is part of sexual reproductive freedom. Having access to medical care is a private medical decision you want to make. You do not want Marjorie Taylor greene to make those decisions foryou want to be able to make those decisions yourself and i think that is resonating across the board for people acr■ party and demographic and states. I think that is the powerful thing we continue to drive forward on. Samantha barry i think as a way , glamour partnered with gq years ago to tell men about abortion stories. We doear fr the men half as much as we should when it comes to the fight. With its interesting from alabama is we have heard from men who a ivf with their partners and they are more involved in the fight than they were previous to that. I want to wrap up and ask you all what can be audience listening do to help stop the the u. S. Or globally . Sarah casey for donors, commit to unrestricted funding to grassroots feminist organizations around the world and in the global south who are the leaders advancing for sexual rights throughout the country and i would say here, for those who can vote, push representatives to pass the global her act which would present prevent that u. S. Government from introducing the global gag rule which removes funding from organizations working on Sexual Reproductive Health around the world. [applause] alexis Mcgill Johnson as gloom and doom as we started the conversation, i do hold a lot of right now and hope needs infrastructure, right, it needs toe supported, it needs everyone who is calling into the Health Center who needs an appointment, there is someone on the other side of that that needs to be supported to make sure they are able to do the work to ensure that the care is provided and they are fighting the bad files and■8■ bills d the funding as they are so supporting local independent providers and planned parenthood affiliates is critically important. But the voting peace and long game voting is something we need to Pay Attention to. 24 will be an incredibly important year. That is the understatement of the universe. To be able to move forward, to get to a governing majority for reproductive freedom, we will give up the first bite of the apple for federal legislation and that should be driving and mobilizing but we will also need to fight Ballot Initiatives like the ones in florida and new york that have language in it that could help us get a guaranteed freedom for the next course and the next 15 years and solly important for us to stay engaged and vote, but also really start to engage in a longterm strategy to get back into the constitution, becausatthgenerat. [applause] Jennifer Klein what we have seen on initiatives is that when people organize and make their voices heard, we see the results. Every time reproductive freedom has been on the ballot, we win. So organize. To give a perfect example of that, they organized, they really bro■cug people out, and the results were clear. And even in smaller ways, if you are not an organizer who is going to bring others with you, just make your own voice heard because it matters that you have people whoflect your values ande policies that you want to see in place. [applause] Samantha Barry ■b thank you very much. Thank you, ladies. [applause] this amazing afternoon. Sec. Clinton now it is evening, it is dark, people are hungry. I just want to tell you that everything you have heard today is part of the agenda that we will be pursuing with e idp and we need all of your good ideas, advice, so much of what we have heard into impact and into work with our students, faculty, outsiders, to make sure that we actually produce results that move1eater equality on behalf girls. Thank you all so much. [applause] two years ago, q democracy faced its greatest threat since the civil war. Today, the roots of our democracy remain unbound and unbroken. Thursday, President Biden delivers the ann