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Spending is hugely important for many republicans in the senate, many republicans in the house, and the president. if you want to get that, you have got to do the non-defense domestic spending. thats why theres a deal and its going to kind of grab the middle and lose the polls, but thats where theyre at. >> i would note, there was always a split among republicans on sequestration because many are hawks. i was a fan because it was our one chance to actually cut some spending. and we are going to ...

Spending. here we are with a deal. we are still combing through and trying to get a sense of it. sounds like increase spending overall close to $300 billion over the next two years, harris. >> harris: im looking bill lift the debt limit which we know they needed to do earlier. we saw that request coming from the republican side as reports were popping out about that a week or so ago. you got the tax cuts. ahead of that, you might need to lift the debt limit that request went through. this bill h...

There. >> republicans tested the waters with two options. one, an interim bill that funds the government at current levels through mid-january and includes bumps that increase spending, renewal of the controversial domestic fisa program, and some assistance for childrens health insurance. the second, stand-alone $81 billion supplemental disaster spending bill for hurricane damage. in the wildfires in california. some say republicans waited too long to do all of it and spent too much time focusin...

Desire to increase our defenses. >> absolutely. good news this week. the president signed into law the fy 18 act that brings us closer to a $700 billion, approximately $100 over the budget. the problem is not the budget caps are still there and the appropriators have to pass legislation and they have to remove those budget caps or -- we fund $549 billion and that means no, i say no, military plus of. that has to be done in the next couple of weeks. they need democratic support to do it. i think ...

Jim just reported on. but i think very important to this speech is presidents moving away from his capacity to make all the changes unilaterally through executive order and now for the first time he really has to look to congress and the institutions of gumpt do big things, whether it be tax reform or infrastructure or obamacare, all these big things. i think were now starting to look for what are you really going to do? whatser your game plan? your strategy? youre laying out $54 billion increas...

Spending, but there are key programs that are important for individual states, individual districts. its going to start a big war with congress. the one thing also is that this is just a first budget. there is going to be a supplemental appropriations bill that they send to congress afterwards that increase spending for things like the wall, others like that. its also going to cause concerns because at the end of the day that will increase the deficit. >> the thing that he sort of wore with sort...

The republican party, those who have the capacity to say yes. a lot of people hope no and then vote yes. we saw that on the continuing resolution and well see it on a number of other issues. >> you were nodding, nodding, nodding and then you went no, no, no. define the nods and the nos. >> the governing up in this place seems to always mean increase spending. thats what it means in d.c. thats not what governing means to the american people. we have this budget chaos every year right before chris...

Priority super spending needs should be addressed. even then were putting it all on credit. as much as they remind me of the importance of the catfish thing, i guess we can say theres a separate provision carved out for goats, i think now is not the time. thats all im saying. >> the good news there is over the long hall, this bill does increase spending. >> no, no, no. careful. it decreases the rate of increased spending. >> okay. fair enough. >> thats a savings, by the way. >> as a matter of fa...

Youre not going to get rid of the deficit immediately, right now in a single budget. its not possible. >> this actually increases the deficit. getting what we want is actually keeping our current law. current law is the sequester. what this bill does is increase spending. $65 billion over the next two years. it doesnt reduce the deficit. chairman ryan understands that. chairwoman, they know that. but to run around and say somehow congress, after the 2022 election, is going to cut the budget, tha...