Clean Continuing Resolution News Today

has tried it before. im jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. >> congress has until friday night to pass funding legislation to keep the government open. despite his best efforts to avoid a government shutdown, the new house speaker appears to be barreling towards one. yesterday afternoon, house speaker mike johnson released a stopgap spending bill, and unusual to teared continuing resolution that would fund some government agencies until january 2019, and as eight through februa...

With another possible government shutdown arriving in 11 days, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces an uphill battle to pass a stopgap funding bill that will likely need bipartisan support. But of several proposals, only one is likely to appeal to the Democrats.

 

The House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers, says it will only support spending bills that address border security.

>> this is monumental reform and we are doing at the right way. >> on the routine vote to approve a tax reform conference, some conservatives nearly blew it up. republican leadership supports a two-week government funding extension. members of the conservative freedom caucus were fighting for an extension until december 30, feeling like the holiday rush can produce lousy deals. >> freedom caucus members acknowledged rank-and-file republicans dont support longer extension. the expectation is ther...

>> if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it. let the bill go to the floor and lets see what happens. just vote. let every member of congress vote their conscience and they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down. >> so why not just allow an up or down vote on a clean resolution without any strings attached, if you have the votes, fine. if speaker boehner says there are no votes there, the president says there a...

More than 218 votes. i believe comfortably. >> reporter: 195 democrats trying to call boehners bluff signed a letter demanding a vote on a no strings attached bill to fund the government. that would mean 22 republicans would have to defy their leadership. now, on the question of whether a clean bill could pass the house, cnn has put a vote count together. right now, we have identified 200 democrats, including some delegates, and 14 republicans who have either publicly stated or told us they woul...

They would vote for this, and wont do so because why take the political risk if john boehner isnt going to put this on the floor. the other point i would like to make that is i was talking to a senior republican source today who said point blank the main reason john boehner is not putting this on the floor is because that would be the end of his speakership. >> gloria borger is here with us as well and ryan lizza, our contributor from the "new yorker" magazine. a quick follow-up on that. all 200...

I believe its more than 13 or 14. >> but the fact that only 13 plus you are willing to say so publicly, and all the others, they may privately be willing to go ahead when its all said and done, but theyre reluctant or afraid, whatever, to tell us that they would vote for that so-called clean continuing resolution. unfortunately you get to see a lot of that around here. all i can say in my state i believe there are five who are declared publicly they would vote for a clean cr. again, i know that ...

>> very tight. >> cnn has been done our own count, to see whether a clean funding bill would actually pass. what they have done is identified 200 democrats that had vote yes. that does include, as we talked about last hour, five conservative democrats who didnt sign on to a letter over the weekend. that means that all house democrats have pledged to vote yes. as for republicans, the key here, 14 republicans have publicly stated or told cnn that they would vote for a clean, continuing resolution ...