Reaction to the Government Shutdown. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Democrats 202 7488000. Worker we a federal want to hear from you as well at 202 7488003. Worker we want to hear from you as wellses on facebook. Thank you for being with us on what is likely to be a busy day determining whether or not the house and senate resolve differences or the Government Shutdown moves into the work week. Of the the front page Washington Post. Besides cast bitter blame over the shutdown impact impasse. The country is sick of shutdown games. From one budget crisis to another is getting tiresome. Americans barely flinch anymore at the dire warnings of what might happen to them should the federal behemoth run out of cash. It was not supposed to work this way writes the detroit news. Decisions about how to spend taxpayer dollars should not be made in a panic as the clock ticks down to a to Government Shutdown. The process of debating and putting in place of federal budget ought to begin with the president ial proposal in february and be completed by the start of the fiscal year on october the first. From the senate floor late yesterday this from the Senate Republican leader mitch start of the fiscal year on octobermcconnell announcing thae senate will be in session today with the possibility of a vote as early as 1 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Heres the Senate Republican leader. States is one day into a Government Shutdown that some of Democrats Senate democrats have forced on her country. Lets take a look at where we are. Last night a bipartisan majority of senators republicans and democrats voted to avoid this. A bipartisan majority voted to advance ace to noncontroversial bill that already passed the house in which the president had already said he will sign. Like any compromise this funding bill cannot be all things to all people. But this bipartisan bill does what we need to do right now. It adds this pointless irresponsible shutdown funds the government for our troops and millions of vulnerable americans and extends Health Coverage for millions of children and low income families. None of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can point to a single thing in the bill that they oppose. Not one thing. Thats why a bipartisan majority voted for it last night. Smoothlyhave passed and been sent for the president s signature. Except that the democratic leader took the extraordinary step of filibustering this bipartisan bill and initiating his own Government Shutdown. Played outs how it yesterday in the u. S. Senate with Mitch Mcconnell. Alive feel of the u. S. Capital. A live view of the u. S. Capitol. Whate taking a look at impact this has on federal employees. Here is the chart. This is what it looks like. Examples housing and urban development would be impacted. 7500 or about 96 would be furloughed. At epa with over 14,000 employees 13,007 hundred would be furloughed. About 95 of federal employees. The same for the education department. 87 of Commerce Department employees. 83 of Labor Department employees. About half of treasury employees would be still working. The other half would be laid off with Social Security about 16 of Social Security workers would be laid off. Than 63f the more thousand Social Security employees. Homeland security and Veterans Affairs would have the least impact. Just over 13 would be furloughed. That from the New York Times. A look at the numbers in terms of what it means for federal workers. Forave a line set aside federal employees. Your thoughts about the Government Shutdown. 202 7488003. Alan is joining us on the republican line in scottsdale, arizona. Caller good morning and thank you for cspan. Thisice is a little deep morning. What i would like to say is how do you negotiate with the since the Obama Administration they have not told the truth to the American People with obamacare. Isrything theyve done obstructed. When it came to legality the constitution and everything. How do you negotiate with people that will not tell you the truth . We will obstruct. Now we have the memos that come out and they are obstructing on that and will not release that to the american public. The times article that you just had up, what was the total amount of dollars that its going to cost the American People . Host that number is not in the article. Per day. The millions we will try to get that figure for you. Lets go to the democrats line. Good morning. Your thoughts on the Government Shutdown. Caller good morning world. This is genius robert. I think its very hurtful to think a lot. And this conversation is aimed directly at mr. Donald j. Trump. Because he needs to realize the history of the development of this country. The development of this country had to do with slaverybecause he history of the development of this country. , exploiting immigrants especially from mexico and it also has to do with the ripping off about 11 states that became the usa through the military. So everything is done through the military. When you do everything through the military is providing food and shelter and some kind of life for the military but its ripping somebody off. I am totally against that and that is the reason why the daca thing should have a lot of relevance. And i know i am very radical because i think. But i dont go along with crap ok. Thank you. Government agencies begin the process of reducing staff. No tors at the u. S. Capitol. On the linening us for federal workers. Good morning. Welcome to the program. Doing. How you say i havet like to been a federal employee with the about 12 years. We started with 110,000 weloyees when i started and are down to about 80,000 employees. We want to go to work. The federal government has chosen to the elected representatives who will get paid during this time by the way have chosen to shut down. They have been offered everything to the democratic side that they wanted except for daca and for those of you who are old enough to remember that Ronald Reagan allowed daca back in the 1980s. Why we put see ourselves in this situation again. These people come into our and they use services wet they do not pay for and can no longer afford to support that. Host the democratic argument has been that the children came over as kids, infants, toddlers 10 tow have been here for 30 years. What do you do with them . Do you send them back to your home country . If this is feel the country to have known should they stay here . Caller that was the same argument they had during the reagan administration. Host i understand. What do you do with those who are here now . They wouldnt allow it to be fixed then so it is now in this situation again. Host which goes back to my question what do you do . How do you resolve the problem . Caller im not saying we need to send the ones that we have back. Im saying we need to stop and say at this point in time there is no one else that is going to be allowed to stay. Host thanks for the call. An earlier caller was asking about the cost of the Government Shutdown. The following available from the Washington Post. How did the search how much did the shutdown cost the economy . In lostion dollars economic output and in terms of the government expenses 2. 1 billion. Available at the Washington Post. Lets go to tyra in North Carolina on the independent line. Day 2 of the Government Shutdown. Caller i would like to ask heavy ever had representative can book of colorado on your program . Host we have indeed. Caller and he talked about his book drain the swamp . Host we also had him for book tv on cspan2. Caller ok good. I would just like to point out that what we are seeing on cspan this is all theater. The republicans are making their deals in the Capitol Hill Club and the democrats are making there is in the National Democratic club and the thatness of these people if you have a new member come into congress that doesnt want to play that game where they just sell out their constituents and the country. Things like cafeteria privileges be taken away from them. Thats the pettiness of this. I dont think they care about the military or daca or anything else. Thats where i think theres a growing number of independen ts. To shut down the government over something that is not really relevant for another couple of speaks to the mindset there is with these people who are mainly working for themselves. Theres a lot that needs to be changed about that or these silly antics will just continue. Host a couple of tweaks. This is from kevin who says donald Trump Campaigned on a so one has to count the trump shut down as a promise kept. Viewer, how rapidly those white republican racists forget that they spent eight years engaged in racist obstruction. This from the National Review. Hang tough republicans, dont let schumers shutdown make you blink. The democrats negotiating stance wegive us this amnesty or will make the Government Shutdown and blame you republicans for it. It is the exact tactic they decried in 2013. Majority of republicans who favor amnesty and even the minority of republicans who favor it with no Strings Attached should not reward this democratic behavior. The democratic demands both are unreasonable in themselves and set a bad precedent. National review goes on to write the end of amnesty for illegal immigration will not mean a mass deportation. Republicans should agree to limited amnesty if it comes with real enforcement members. Measures. The headline, hang tough republicans. On the republican line joseph is next from houston, texas. Good morning. Caller good morning. The thing i think that congress should realize and remember is that they work for the people. Weording to the constitution the people. The 17th amendment. We directly elect our representatives. And we dont realize that we have lost their voice. We have given our voice up. This coming november 435 of them are up for reelection. 435 withreplace all independent candidates who will get the job done who will remember they work for the American People and not themselves. Host Karen Buchanan has this point on twitter. I am curious how does shutting down the government cost billions. Donna saying they didnt drain the swamp, they poisoned it. The right has the talking points and the propaganda slogan. Ts all over the media larry and tuscaloosa. A live view of the u. S. Capital. Good morning. Caller good morning. Shutdown isn the that the commander in chief is the head leader not only of the executive office but he is the head commander of the military. Chief have commander in exampleupposed to set for the military. Example for the military. That includes the army, the navy, the air force. He is out here using folder language. How does that set an example . The military can get put out. They can get an article 15 for in theisrespect language military. But when you have a commander in chief who is supposed to set example and is not doing that. When you have a government the commanderinchief. The president of this United States is supposed to set up policy. Supposed to have a vision. A plan. The people in this United States. When you got chip. Low income peoples. Abies who need shots and you got the commanderinchief of the military, the president who is going to sit back and blame democrats. Blame republicans can democrats. What is the solution. What you going to do to help the peoples . We got veterans out here. Some who just came back from iraq. Some who came back from the military in seoul south korea. Now on food stamps. Cant get their pay. Host david roth has this tweet. Its the logical next step for the illogical leadership a. K. A. Disruptive diabolical dysfunctional pick one donald. Send us a tweet. Also join the conversation. The house is coming in this afternoon as is the senate. A rare sunday session for both. We heard from Mitch Mcconnell that there could be a senate vote as late as 1 00 in the morning tomorrow. It could happen earlier. Based on senate rules. And it will be live on cspan2. We would get reaction on the washington journal today. From salem, oregon. Independent line. Good morning. I was a lobbyist for gd serling and company. I was a lobbyistwhen the shutdn we were able to put an amendment into the final budget that created the 350 million windfall for the company. So the story thats not being written right now, its not the swamp. Its looseygoosey. Meaning there is so much floating around issues right now that every good lobbyist in town is trying to find whatever their it onsue is and tied whatever will be the vehicle that gets the government started again. I sense this is going to take four or five days. Maybe a little bit longer as nobody knows what the president will do. This is looseygoosey. This isnt the swamp. This is a process that is going to end up with a lastminute now and five days from theres going to be a ton of stuff in that thing that will be individual corporations and individual benefits to the tune of billions of dollars. Host thank you for the call. Mylan berg, its very simple. Trump is in charge of the government so it is his fault. Some of the reporting from a team of Washington Post reporters with this headline. Congressional leaders refuse to budge on shutdowns first day but negotiations continue. Congressional leaders in both parties refusing to budge publicly from their political on saturday. Avoid indirect negotiations and bitterly blaming each other for the impasse in speeches. President trump joining the fray with a series of charged tweets. Moderate democrats and republicans began to rally behind a new short term funding proposal to reopen the government through early february. That could include funding for states and in a pleasant agreement to hold votes on a bipartisan immigration deal according to senators involved in the discussion. Joe is joining us on the line for independence from mesquite, oklahoma. Comment. ve got a they had been here 20 or 30 years come legally. Need nohe wall we dont wall. Just find the people that hire illegals. This is from tillman. Why dont you call it government funding . He says washington journal is just using a scare tactic. Whether its a government funding or Government Shutdown essentially is a sunday so closed so the key question is what will happen tomorrow. Yesterday senator Tammy Duckworth had this to say. Will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five deferment draft dodger. Message for cadet bone spurs. If you cared about our military you would stop baiting kim jongun into a war that could put 85,000 american troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger. Havenight after the lights been turned out in the white house and the president had gone to his private quarters, i voted to better train and equip our troops. To stop wasting the taxpayers dollars with yet another cr. I voted to make sure that our military men and women who are dmzding in the line of the who are in iraq and afghanistan across africa and asia get the help, support, and equipment they need. If the president truly cared about them than he would stop hiding behind his twitter account. Stop blaming everyone else. Party thattell his controls the house, the white house and the senate to do their job. To govern. To stop allowing the most extreme wing of your party to prevent us from passing the longterm funding solution that the military itself your own anders that you nominated appointed is asking for. Host senator Tammy Duckworth. A veteran speaking on the senate floor in a speech getting a lot of attention on what was a busy day saturday as well with some heated emotions on the house and senate floor during part of the day. The president spending the day at the white house. He was scheduled to be at maralago to celebrate the one Year Anniversary of his inauguration with a 100,000 per couple fundraiser. He did speak to the gathering. Ia satellite the white house released a number of photographs of him from the oval office. On the republican line, good morning. Caller i used to be a democrat but i voted republican and from. I consider myself now a republican because the democrats have nothing to offer me. I am an average middleclass seer Senior Citizen and i the democrats offering me nothing. Haveast the republicans been offering things that pertain to me. Thats why i voted republican this year. Thats why i voted for president donald trump. Because hes offering me a way to help me. And he has been offering a way to help every american. Dont think that the democrats do that. All they want to do is throw issues out there that do not belong in like this budget bill. Things like daca. They dont want a solution to the budget. They want to fight. And i want to protest. And they want to do all kinds of things. They dont want a budget bill and thats why they are doing what they are doing and thats my comment. This from the l. A. Times. On the first day of the partial Government Shutdown the democrats strategy posing some risk. The democrats have grown used to winning political faceoffs over shutdowns. Smiling from the sidelines as republicans struggled to contain the unruly factions in their party. Now they