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The house overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan short term Spending Bill. It would provide 45 days of Government Funding. It includes federal Disaster Relief assistance, but it does not include aid to ukraine, which has been a wrinkle in all of this, all afternoon. A big, big wrinkle. That has caused a holdup in the senate, but we have just learned that the senate will be gaveling into sessions. In lets go straight to capitol hill, where manu raju has spent a very long day working sources and chasing his sources lawmakers. Manu raju, i thought i heard somebody tell me a couple of hours ago, this would be over by now, you and i could go down the street, get a glass of scotch, have a cigar. Welcome to the United States senate. Any person can hold things up. And thats what happened this afternoon. Senator jim bennett lack of ukraine funding in his proposal. But he has been asking for a bipartisan commitment of support to show support for the ukrainian cause. It appears that is going to happen here. It appears the vote, jim and stop me if you heard this before but this does seem imminent. The vote does seem imminent. Now because of various reason another top senate republican, tom pilsen, says it could happen in the next ten minutes and perhaps the biggest indication of all, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority leader, his office said he is going to go to the floor and make some remarks. That is expected to lock in the vote, the final vote, to avoid a Government Shutdown, after a back and forth and the fears of the shutdown because of gop divisions in the house gop, ultimately Speaker Mccarthy changed course and decided to pass a bill with democratic, support along with republican support, get it out of his chamber, extend Government Funding for 45 days. Now, thats what the senate will act on here. But there is still concerned about ukraine and about everything that happened, transpired over the last several days. I caught up with one senate republican, bill cassidy, about all of this. He did indicate, still, supporting the ukrainian cause and also indicated that things are just messy. And that is what transpired here over the last several days. I do support the ukrainians, both in the fight for freedom, but also their debilitating the russians. Because the russians are coming up to us. Government is. Messi and anybody that once a lovely government should all right. We hate to break into that, but lets go to Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Hes on the floor of the senate, on the effort to avoid a Government Shutdown. Without objection i move to proceed to hr 5860 motion to proceed to hr 5860, an Act Making Continuing Appropriations For Fiscal Year 2024 and for other purposes. Madam president , i know of no further debate on the motion. Is there further debate . If not, all in favor say aye. Aye. Ayes have it. 2024 and for other purposes. Madam president , i now ask unanimous consent to their be up to five minutes for debate, equally divided between the two leaders or their designated persons. The senate vote on passage of hr 5860, with 60 affirmative votes required for passage and with no amendments or motions in order to the bill, prior to the vote, on passage. Is there objection . Without objection, so ordered. Madam president the Majority Leader is recognized. I have very good news for the country. Democrats and republicans have come to an agreement, and the government will remain open. We will have avoided a shutdown. Bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the senate, has prevailed. And the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a bridge c. R. , and Leader Mcconnell and i have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for ukraine. We support ukraines efforts to defend its sovereignty against putins aggression. So, thank you. Thank you to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their excellent work. The bipartisanship here in the senate set the tone for todays result, and i hope it sets the tone for the future. I yield the floor. The republican leader is recognized. With just a few hours to spare, the senate is now in a position to prevent a harmful and unnecessary Government Shutdown. As i have said for weeks, the clearest path forward has been two paths a straightforward short term Funding Extension that gives us time to continue a number of important discussions about outstanding priorities, from securing supplemental relief for victims of natural disasters, to restoring security and sanity at the southern border that the Biden Administration has dragged into chaos, to putting stronger restraints on the president s reckless spending, to supplying ukraine with even more of the lethal assistance it needs to repel russias invasion. On that particular point, Madam President , most Senate Republicans remain committed to helping our friends on the frontlines, to invest in more heavily american strength that reinforces our allies and deter our top should he jake adversary, china. Im confident the senate will pass further urgent assistance to ukraine later this year. But lets be clear. The alternative to our action today, an entirely avoidable Government Shutdown, would not just pause our progress on these important priorities. It would actually set them back. And in the process, it would saddle the people we represent with unnecessary hardships. So, i am glad our colleagues in the house have taken action on a continuing resolution that keeps the critical government functions going at their current rates of operation. Passing this measure, keeping the lights on, will allow us to return our attention to Making Headway on full year appropriations our colleagues have been working on, literally, four months, and will give us the flexibility to meet urgent supplemental priorities both at home and abroad. Therefore, i would urge our colleagues to join me in supporting this important step in the right direction. And we are looking at live pictures right now of the United States and, it as they are about to take up the vote to avoid a Government Shutdown. You just heard from the Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, Mitch Mcconnell. They are in agreement. And lets listen in as this vote happens. Well call the roll. Mr. Baldwin was ms. Blackburn mr. Booker, mr. Boseman, mr. Brown, mr. But, ed mr. , cantwell, mr. Caputo mr. Casey. Let me turn to my colleague, manu raju, who is Up On Capitol Hill right now, as we are both watching this. Manu raju, can you help, without help the viewers out at home, what we are looking at right now. Is this . It this is, it jim. Chuck schumer and Mitch Mcconnell, they reached an agreement and the final vote, to keep the government open on this bill that passes the house just today, 45day extension. They said they went to the floor, nobody objected. That means they locked in the final vote. And thats exactly what is happening right now on the senate floor, after mcconnell and schumer both spoke as we heard, now the senators are going to come, aye and nay, this will probably take an hour or so and it takes a long time for the senate to vote and its a very oldfashioned chamber. They still vote by paper ballots, they dont do things electronically, like the house does, this including single votes. So this vote is and maybe 9 00 hour and when it will pass probably overwhelmingly. It will be interesting to see how many people actually vote against this measure because of what Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell are talking about their. Ukraine, that has been such an issue, so central in the senate as sowing the divisions between Senate Republicans and House Republicans, over continuous support for ukraine. Mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, is such a staunch advocate for more funding for ukraine. He sided with Chuck Schumer in agreement with Six Billion Dollars in ukraine aid in the senates plan to keep the government open in mid november. That plan moving through the legislative process did not receive a final vote yet. And Kevin Mccarthy, the speaker of the house, said it was dead on arrival, in large part because it included funding for ukraine. That is why the speaker decided to push that aside, move forward the bill that did not include aid for ukraine, but kept the government open, would keep the government open for 45 days, includes a made for national Disaster Relief, did not go for with Spending Cuts as he had been pushing, what is security measures, as he had been pushing, because he needs democratic support, which is how what happened today in a really, in a Wheelie Lightning speed, in the house, as the speaker retreated from his position but nevertheless, would pass this out of the house, now its into the senate, after a daylong negotiation, with some of the members, who were concerned about lack of ukraine aid and Michael Bennet bipartisan show of commitment, perhaps that was there on the floor. We will see if theres comes up after this. But they have resolved that concerned. Now, they are going to pass this bill. And jim, guess what . In 45 days we could be doing this yet again, as they are going to have to find a way to fund the government, and then a short term Spending Bill, through the end of this current fiscal year. Yeah, and the cycle of brinkmanship in the United States congress continues. And manu raju, correct me if i am wrong, but it sounds like, at the end of the day, what we are going to witness here is, yes, the government is going to be kept open. But also, it sounds like the hardest of his being postponed, put off for another day. And that is a vote on whether or not the United States government will continue to fund aid and assistance for the people of ukraine in their fight against the russians. That did not get resolved today. It got yanked out of the house bill. And, over, i guess, the grumbling of some senators in the senate, its got to get through the senate tonight. And that remains an open question out, moving forward. Yeah, look, this is what congress does best. They punt. Whenever they confront a complicated issue, its punt to the next time, worry about it later. Thats exactly what they are doing now. Theres no real clear path about how this gets resolved, as long as the speaker maintains, not oppose he is not saying he is opposed to funding for ukraine. But he is not guaranteeing. He has not the white house proposed, which is 24 billion. And that is only a piece of what ukraine probably needs. What capitol hill 25 just a piece of what ukraine may need, until next year. They may need even more for the fight back the russians in this war that the world is watching in ukraine right now. And the question is, will that commitment be there from the United States, given the division that are growing in the Republican Party . As well as public support in some aspects of as well, that is raising real concerns about whether this will actually get approved, even though, jim, overwhelming, lee in the senate and the house, theres bipartisan support for funding ukraine. But the leadership decides in congress what gets on the floor. And at the moment, Kevin Mccarthy has decided not to put ukraine aid on the floor. Wait for another day to deal with that issue. We will see when that day comes what he ultimately decides, and whether or not this aid eventually becomes law. Yeah, and thats going to be a day of reckoning, not only for the people of the United States and the government, here but for the people of ukraine. Because it is one thing for Zelenskyy To GoUp On Capitol Hill, as he did in recent weeks, and pose for pictures with lawmakers, go over to the white house, meet with the president and so on. That is one thing. It is quite another thing for members of congress to take these hard votes, to make sure that the fight continues in ukraine and that putin is not just getting a red carpet on the way to kyiv. Manu raju, as always, thank you so much. We will be tuning into Inside Politics at 11 00 a am as you will be hosting that show manu, stick around, we we will back with you on the other side. Stay with us. Be right back. All right, today, a surreal and frantic scramble Up On Capitol Hill to avoid a shutdown, House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy abandoned his promise to conservative hardliners on increased Border Security and Spending Cuts, opting instead to pass a funding bill with mostly democratic votes. Now, the senate is voting to pass the house bill before the government runs out of money. Lets discuss with cnn political commentator commentator and spectrums political commentator, errol louis. Errol louis, your sense of what took place today. We were just talking about this with manu raju a few moments ago. The House Speaker had his back up against the wall, it seems. He was not going to get anywhere with his republican conference alone and there was just too much infighting going inside the conference. So, we had to work with democrats to get this done here. And it was really just driving the government to the brink of a shutdown. We are seeing this take place right now in the senate, as was manu just explaining a few moments ago. It is not like the house where a vote can be with over in a few minutes. This might take within the course of the next hour or so. This was a close call. Yeah, absolutely. And listen, what happened is, the speaker was dealing with a faction of his conference, about 21 members, who would not take yes for an answer. They said they wanted to tie the government staying open to whether or not there would be an impeachment hearing. He gave that to them. That was not enough. They said they wanted to have deep budget cuts. He put something on the floor the other day, jim, as you remember, that included 30 cuts in nonmilitary discretionary funding. Deep, deep cuts. They didnt go for that. They even wanted to sort of do away with the practice of these continuing resolutions that extend through government, while negotiating, and they wanted to go through the regular appropriations process, and even those have been making process. And so, i think, at some point, the speaker decided this is just not worth it. We are not going to shut down the government over something that cant really be negotiated. And i dont know if we have heard anybody today who gave some clear indication of what given these 21 members who that would have shop stop them from cooler heads prevailed. He lives to fight another day. This is not over, of course. He is going to have to deal with his faction of his Congress Conference yet again. He may, in fact, be planning to try and oust him. But, for now, at least, the good news is that millions of federal workers are not gonna have their lives turned upside down. And that would have been a giant, miss manu raju, who is also with us, had the shutdown occurred. They would have been far reaching efforts on the parts of some the to minimize what would have been a big miss for americans across the country, had the shutdown gone into effect. But, i guess, to errols point, im kind of wondering, and maybe im being too optimistic here, is whether some of the hardliners were the incentivized in this process at the very end. Because they did take things to the brink. And they did not get what they wanted. Look, i dont think they are going to back off, though, jim. I think they are angry about this. And the question is what they are going to do in the weeks ahead. The question i have is, how will this change how mccarthy deals with the