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Time when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have. let me go through why i say that. the majority leader says that the bill scores as reducing the deficit $131 billion over the next ten years. first, a little bit about cbo. i work with them every single day. very good people, and great professionals and they do their jobs well, but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. and what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors. now, what do i mean when i say that? well, first off, the bill has ten years of tax inc...

Cloak room wasting everybody's time. >> reporter: the 652-page budget deal devotes $165 billion to defense spending and $131 billion to domestic priorities. it raises the debt ceiling for over a year. and includes nearly $90 billion in disaster relief. president trump announced his support for the budget deal earlier this week. but amid the shutdown, a noticeable silence from the white house. on tuesday, mr. trump said he'd love to see a shutdown if democrats don't agree to his immigration demands, a statement the white house later walked back. >> if we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. ...

Remains to be seen. and then there is nancy pelosi. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. good evening. >> the drama is not over, even after bipartisan leaders in the senate announced agreement on a two-year budget deal. >> the compromise we have reached will ensure that for the first time in years our armed forces will have more of the resources they need to keep america safe. >> the budget deal provides 106 to $5 billion more for the military, $131 billion more for dimension programs. debt ceiling increase through march 2019. disaster relief funding for hurricane and wildfire victims. keeping the...

$2 billion for the national institutes of health. $4 billion for college afford ability. lift funding for domestic programs by $131 billion. the budget deal is a win for the american people. >> neil: all right. that's always in the eyes of the beholder. i didn't make that seem it was only chuck schumer adding to this. the republicans were just as much. in all, $300 billion in spending beyond what we have right now. both the republicans dug into that trough and the democrats. i'm not implying this is just chuck schumer and his piling on. both parties have gone ahead and turned their back on seq...

He refused to do so. in fact, he was on the senate floor many different times making multiple speeches essentially saying this was a bill that was way too big, way too expensive and chastising his own party for being hypocritical. take a listen. >> if you were against president obama's deficits and now you're for the republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy? >> reporter: there is a lot at stake here. this is a game-changing bill. this is $400 billion, close to a two-year deal. it really changes the way the government is being funded now. it's a two-year plan that includ...