Integrations reporter from politico. The headline on your website, congress clears spending bill, averting shutdown. The house passed and thehous senate followed suit. It will go to the president. What is in this measure . This is a really minimal spending bill theres almost nothing in it except just keeping the funding going. Theres a small technical fix in the Childrens Health insurance program, the funding that expired on september 30 and this is just kicking it down theth road why do this now . Congressional leaders have not agreed on how much to actually spend in fiscal 2018. They cant write the big spending bill until we get those numbers. This is giving two additional weeks so that we can try to iron out negotiations on the hill, congressional leaders can keep meeting, try to come up with the best spending record lets focus on the house inet the wall at the senate. Republicans all on board for this measure yesterday. Democrats all opposed it. What are republicans, what are the different factions. They supported this yesterday butay will they supported longerterm . This is probably the only time we will see so many House Republicans vote for the same spending bill for the rest of the year. This is a significant achievement for republicans in the house. Y r r republicans have not traditionally been able to pass the spending bills with only their own members. S Republican Leadership has almost always had to rely on democrats but here we had about a full week of wrangling with paul ryan and his deputies trying to get republicans on board with the spending bill so they wouldnt have to go to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and try to come up with some sort of a deal. We did see all the conservatives in the house and then we had even some immigration hardliners who said we cannot support something for the dreamers and House Speaker paul ryan was able to get everyone on board because they didnt have to go to nancy pelosi on the longerterm . You have those who want to see an increase in the military spending and those who are worried about the deficit there are a lot of dueling demands. We do have the defense talks and some of the conservatives on board, even the House Freedom caucus does shy away from deficit spending and they have said they would support a major increase in defense spending which is not something theyve done in the past for the big difference, President Trump. Theyre constantly talking to trump and he feels hes advocating on behalf of the president and thats probably one of the major issues going had. They are nervous about punting major spending decisions into january. Going into the 22nd theres already members were demanding a full year of spending defense which would put it wrinkle in negotiations and cause all the decisions on domestic spending until january but the fence would be settled and its not can happen, theres no way the senate would consider that. Its something the Defense Committee is really pushing for we will hear from the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, mark meadows. He is here with the womensc conservative form here in washington d. C. It will be on at 12 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2 or website cspan. Org or download the free radio app. We will hear what he has to say if he delivers remarks about these negotiations. Did the Freedom Caucus folks, is at them that will not agreed to increase military spending without touching domestic spending thats right and there are plenty more beyond the Freedom Caucus. The house conservatives are feeling really empowered after they took that vote in the house yesterday where they didnt need any democrats. They feel like they have the majority in congress and the republican president for the first time in many years, they want their demands. Seems like every day the have a new goalpost in these negotiations and their asking for something new. It puts Speaker Paul Ryan in a tough spot. This is going to be one of his big tasks and has set every time theres a major leadership decision, but here with the spending conversation at the first time President Trump is influencing a spending bill other than what which wasapril pretty much punting everything until now so this will be a really highstakes moment for the house, even though we have looked down the road we know the democrats will have more leverage. We are going to see the house conservatives get rolled on this the next couple of weeks so that the speaker the house needs to go to democrats . Is gonna need some votes . What the democrats want in return . They have a long list of demands that seems to be growing every day. The biggest demands, right now is immigration protections for dreamers, they want some sort of resolution for deferred action for childhood arrivals which is ending in march, republicans have said they also want an agreement on this. There is bipartisan conversations happening behind the scenes but conservatives do not want this in any spending bill. They dont want this to hold the spending bill hostage on immigration. They know its a very tricky issue so theyre trying to keep it separate. Democrats are also looking for parity between defense and domestic spending. They want to save the pentagon is going to get a major increase in spending for the next year, they want to make sure the domestic programs are getting an equal increase which is something thats very controversial. They are notvers willing to go that far with domestic funding. They say its a difficult time for the military and we need to have thisr build up so they say the pentagon needs to have a much larger increase in domestic programs will have to see what happens in the house, but the question is always, what can pass in the senate . Where does it stand then . Were gonna see how conservatives likely oppose whatever deal comes out of these negotiations with nancy pelosi, speaker ryan, Mitch Mcconnell and President Trump. The five of them met yesterday in the white house and they all walked out saying it was a good meeting but no deal had been reached. There were some members who tossed around ideas of the democrats in like and the republicans are trying to propose higher defense spending and still thing we want to put more money toward the pentagon them were willing to increase for domestic programs and democrats are still drawing a line saying we want parity, we want equal increases so we will have to see where democrats are willing to compromise on the issue. It doese seem theres hopeful consensus that they will get equal parity but will have to watch as the negotiations unfold sarahs here taking your questions. Jean from illinois, youre up first a morning. As a taxpayer im concerned about the earmarks and whats gonna go into this legislation , both with democrats and republicans. Our country is at war and we have men and women serving around the globe. They should be priority number one. I understand that, but why is it at the end of the year when every one is packed up and ready to head out for christmas that the country is held hostage. Thank you for taking my call the scenario of having these lastminute deals right before christmas is exactly why conservatives were initially so imposed to getting a spending bill passed. It only goes through december 22. Its the friday right before christmas. Its a deadline that was picked strategically. The leadership in the house and senate no that putting a deadline thats very hard to miss will be a big way to actually get the negotiations to finish up on time because no one wants to be, no one in the house wants to be the member holding up christmas for the hundreds of other members in congress. This is something the house conservatives said weti wanna put these negotiations into january and give us some extraa leeway, we dont want to see these tricky negotiations on hundreds of policy issues that will be decided in the next couple weeks that we will not fullypl graspl even into the coming weeks and months but we havent seen the appropriations bill other than what the house has written, the partisan documents of the bipartisan decisions that will be coming out, we are going to be pouring over these for weekss. In republican from the nebraska i agree they should do something with the military, and if they dont, if they shut the government down because they cant get the money that they need after allth these aircraft crashed and we know that they have problems with their oxygen in thewi osprey and some of the ships, we have problems with training we have people playing games with money andnd i know this lady here is happier than a pig in poop because the democrats might win, but we wont get the money for the military, will take your rear end out there and going to the military and see how you likego it to be fair, shes a reporter for politico. I dont think shes expressing any happiness toward democrats in the negotiations, but if the military does not see an increase, what will their at . Ing level be fiscal 2018 is the first year that the sequestration would go into effect so they cant reach an agreement, it would be a drastic cut to defense. Will be several billion dollars below what it is rightde now. That is almost certainly not. Happened. W will almost certainly be an increase in defense spending going forward. This is something that everyone, almost everyone on the hill have said this is a priority. President trump of course had made it a priority so i dont think theres any question that there will not be an increase to the pentagon budget next year, the question of course is just what exactly will democrats agree to when it comes to lifting those domestic levels . We want to get your questions about spending on capitol hill. Lines are open. Omar in north carolina, independent, your next. I just wanted to comment on the senator who made these allegations [inaudible] i think it was an honorable thing to do. , leave it there because weve gone on to spending in the budget process up on capitol hill, but we will return to this week in congress so you are welcome and others are welcome to share their thoughts coming up. Will spend from eight until 10 00 a. M. On washington journal talk about that. The morning. Thanks for taking my call. I just like too, about some of these republicans that call in and make comments like the fella that is called in and said you should get your butt out and join the military. These people are simply overthetop and i dont think they understand that paul ryan is already announced that they plan to attack Social Security s and medicare and medicaid next year and these people calling i in, that vulgar fella, im retired, but as an older feller, these republicans hate Social Security, they hate the Affordable Care act and if they were to get their way, they would destroy those programs leave it there. This is the first call we got from a few viewers. Republicans say they are doing this so they can turn a make cuts to Social Security and medicare politically it does look really bad for republicans that they finish up their tax push with several Top Republican leaders in the house and senate who are eyeing a push to a socalled welfare reform. They want to cut waste and trim spending around the edges, they want to have some reform such as adding work requirements to some of these programs, but this is a priority that theyve had for a long time for this is not something they plan to used to pay for their tax plan but politically having these priorities, one after another, i think well welfare reform will be a big part of what we hear about. This is going to be really, having this at the central focus after the tax push, its going to look real bad for republicans this viewer tweets in, why did the democrats go long on stopping the shutdown . Democrats really have been, for many years, a party of averting a shutdown. They always say there never the ones that want to hold negotiations hostage, they have said this for a long time. For the last week we see a really delicate dance of them try to say these are priorities a and we want to fix daca but they said over and over we will not shut the government down. N. Yesterday in house, 14 democrats supported this bill in the house even though nancy pelosi and her leadership have been going against us thing they really want to watch republicans form on the floor and get the votes but in the senate, there was only about a dozen democrats that didnt votet for this, by and large Senate Democrats say we have no reason to vote against this, theres nothing in this resolution that we dont like so was an interesting dynamic to watch so Many Democrats not vote for it because they said they were part of negotiations with republicans and then there feeling good about where theyre going and they know they will have leverage on the next line of spending so they did vote for this because they said they have no reason not to lets listen to the minority leader, nancy pelosi, this was before she went to the white house before the housewh passed this shortterm bill, but she hears talking about a longerterm, longerterm negotiation and what democrats want. Are you backing off your stance where you said you will not leave here without a daca fix no, we will not leave here without a fix have you changed your mind at all about border while funding or immigration crackdown fundin funding . When you say have you changed your mind, we said to the president the night he agreed to daca legislation that we understand, we have a responsibility to protect our border and we think there are many things we canbo do working together to do that. Members have been working in a bipartisan way to address that. Were not backing off anything, including protecting our border. We are not going to turn this country into a reign of terror of domestic enforcement and have the dreamers pay that price. T what did you make of her comments . If you listen to the full press conference, she is saying that it will be a priority, she doesnt want to leave before the end of the year without a commitment on this, but interestingly, she didnt say this needed to be in the spending bill. She was asked earlier in the press conference, will you be demanding a fix for dreamers in the neck spending bill, and she did not say she was going to do that. She said im not going to be starting a shutdown over this andwn democrats have been saying we dont want to be the shutdown party, they always try to blame us for any type of shutdown. I think what were seeing here is that she is agreeing with republicans other could be a fix outside the appropriations process which was think that conservative republicans that have to happen, they dont want to see this tied up in the same process. I think she is trying to stay strong on this while acknowledging there isle really no place, theres probably going to be no place for the immigration debate in the neck spending the process my question is, with all the problems going on in our country with north korea, the embassy being moved, the Government Shutdown, it seems to me that democrats and republicans are at war with each r other when we should be worried about Everything Else is going on in the world. Thats my question. Why are the democrats and republicans fighting with each other when they should be workingwh together . That question would take a long time to answer it would. I dont think theres anythingle that has really changed that much in the past couple of years. C i dont know that we expected democrats and republicans to suddenly have a peaceful moment with president drop in the white house but at the end of the day these negotiations will get finalized, they will divert a Government Shutdown awayach party will walk with an influence on this republican linee morning. Thank you cspan for taking my call. I just wanted to say the Government Shutdown, i guess ill just be watching washington journal on the 22nd to see whats going on there we will be here. Other than that, i just want to say i love watching cspan and washington journal is an excellent show. I love hearing all the reasonable accents and tones. Theres only different opinions anddi emotions that are espoused, but everybody just please stay calm and get along and keep god first. One radical idea, im in a suggest, theres like 300 golf courses in the desk, maybe we should turn those into academies [inaudible] you expect lawmakers will still be here . They are trying to get out a little bit early. He talked to reporters who cover the hill, he talked to staffers who are with members, and theyve got flights on the h , 21st, 22nd, there is going to be a lot of pressurell to try to get done earlier. Members are usually home with their family by this time having a 22nd deadline, there were grounds on the floor when the jury leader ofounced the schedule change. The real question is how soon will they get their tax pushed on. Republicans are hoping to finish up the Conference Committee where theyre trying to have conversation between the house and the senate, they want to get those done by the 1h or 18th and that leaves just a couple days to get final locations too. They say they can walk and chew gum at the same time in these negotiations can have the background so we will really have to see if the tax push can go on as expected, if its earlier than expected we could probably see, but theres a lot of pressure to get it done these are two big items. Anything else i must do list . There is a very long list of programs that either expired in december or before. I mention the Childrens Health insurance program, that is going to run out of funding very soon. Theres already warnings that might not be funding left. We also have surveillance tower towers, thats probably going to be taxed on negotiation. Theres a whole list that congress has been punting including Flood Insurance that has sort of come into a larger focus with the many hurricanes weve seen so therell be a lot of issues were congress may want to extend those t deadlines. Well see that in january theres no way to finish writing a spending bill so on that day will see another continuing resolution againhe in january but i do think a couple of these bills will be attached. They