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Congress is racing to fund the government ahead of a crucial deadline on Friday.

Congressional leaders left the White House on Wednesday seemingly still at odds over how to break the logjam over Ukraine aid and U.S. border policy. President Joe Biden hosted top lawmakers for more than an hour to discuss his $106 billion supplemental request that would include roughly $61 billion in military assistance to Ukraine as it fights Russia's invasion. The bill, which also includes aid for Israel and Taiwan as well as $14 billion for border security, has been stalled amid fierce...

Immigration policy will be a major issue in the Presidential election this year. But at the moment passing funding bills is critical for American global leadership.

Border. We have seen over 8 Million people in the last three years, Plus 3 Million get aways, plus 100,000 children we dont know which is much more disturbing than any of that to me that we dont know where they are. So those are the kind of things i would like to see us start prioritizing. And i dont know why either party seems to be afraid of that. And i wish schumer would take it up in the senate. So, im kind of hanging my hat on that right now. But i would like to see whats in it. Every time ...

Conservative as many want. members want conservative deals. weve seen them be able to do that early on last year. but it is impossible and many members say you know, i want johnson to be more forthcoming, stronger. lead negotiations. all of those things, but they also understand that whether it is johnson, literally any other republican, they will not be able to bring this broken and fractured conference together. >> he makes a decision on what to do, hell get flak for making the decision. if yo...

When are senate republicans going to get serious about the border? >> well, its time to get serious about the border right now, and the way we do that is to tell the biden administration if you want your administration funded, secure the border. secure the border or shut it down. the very worst thing webbed do right now is give them -- we could do right now is give them more money for things like giving aid to help other countries secure their borders while doing nothing thats actually going to ...

Deal with schumer? >> i do. >> reporter: now trying to avoid the same feat as speaker mccarthy, the first speaker ever ousted after he relied on democrats to help keep the government open. and at an overall level of $1.66 trillion, similar to the deal mccarthy and the white house agreed to last may. >> by the time we could even get back into d.c., he had negotiated the terms of our surrender on the issue. >> do you think hes up to the job? >> i think the problem is we didnt do the right thing up...

House mike johnson are really concerned about this issue it seems because of course the government has this to terry potential shutdown that might be happening. do you have confidence he will get the job done? do you think youre peers believe in him? so weve had more ones than one speaker recently. >> in his margins even thinner than when kevin mccarthy was speaker. its going to be tough. weve got some promises to reduce spending when we voted to increase the debt limit. im worried that this new...

I think its a mistake. >> martha: do you regret signing that deal with schumer for the fiscal appropriations for 2024? any regrets about it? >> i regret we have one of the smallest majorities in the united states congress. we have to govern. thats what were doing. what we achieved is the first cut in nonva and nondefense spending in over ten years. its not a hail mary pass to win the game. as we said in football, this is yard by yard, inch by inch. we have to play and advance the ball up the fie...

The president of the united states has enormous leverage over the president of mexico. president trump, after all, he showed everyone how to exercise leverage by threatening new tariffs on mexico if it didnt start helping on the border. and for 25 years i have been writing and speaking about the fact that the elites want open borders. this is their policy. most of them hate america and they want america to fundamentally change without any input from the voters at all. their political existence i...