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Republicans have a packed agenda when they return to congress on september 5th. among their essential tasks, passing a new spending bill and raising the debt ceiling by months end. but last night in phoenix, president trump threw a monkey wrench into those plans. >> build that wall. now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. but believe me, we have to close down our government, were building that wall. >> the president is threatening to shut down the government if congress does...

You cant move things from less important things in order to make certain essential tasks are taken care of. >> there are others, this is just a drop in the bucket. >> sure it is. yeah, now, remember the sequester affects $85 billion worth of spending. we have a federal budget this year will be $3.5 trillion. that is over 3500 billions of dollars. now the problem is this falls in the discretionary side of the budget which is, you know, a very small fraction of the budget. most of the budget is on...