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Deja vu all over again. government shutdown. to be awarded when this time? >> i think so but you're right. huge is an understatement. this is the second-largest discretionary spending increase in the last decade. second only to the obama stimulus package. i don't think the american people elected republicans in 2016 to preside over a spending increase of this magnitude. while it is good thing for national defense, it spends a boatload of money on the rest of the government which is not with the people elected us to do. >> harris: from my notes, is 2.4% increase for pay in the military and beyo...

Going on here in washington, d.c. you heard chairman thornberry talk about the good, the bad and the ugly the good is good but the bad and ugly is bad and ugly as well the trillions is a problem for many of us. >> eric: $1.3 trillion. how do you address that when we heard a fellow colleague talking about the debt we're leaving to our children and grandchildren. >> it's very concerning for many of us here. even if you look at the first several years with the obama administration you had deficits of 35% and we're looking at something close to 17% this year, 21% next year. the defense funding nee...

Taking office and they were painful and lengthy and cutting spending. now a bill gets large bipartisan supporting it which has $300 billion in spending increase. it does away with the sequester. it does away with the 2011 budget gaps. the senator makes a point that resonates with those who supported this deal. i think the interesting element here and i want to point out, guys, we knew the house would be an issue and there would be drama. we woke up thursday morning now with no idea of the senate being a problem. we had the votes in the senate. they expected to move forward in the early afterno...

Under president george w. bush. they got together and decided that they should raise the spending caps by almost between 300 and $400 billion and that was, i think, a pretty easy thing for them to come to an agreement on, karl, on the senate side. >> it is because, remember, caps are not appropriations and they -- they actually originally the democrats said if for every dollar you increase in defense caps you need to increase in the nondiscretionary -- nondefense. here is what the senate is it's $80 billion more to defense that right now defense is at 549. this would carry to 629. and then on ...

Steve: schumer and also mitch mcconnell coming out saying we have got a deal. ainsley: we did it. steve: what is in the deal? there is nothing to do anything with daca. that has angered a number of democrats. it will increase the pentagon spending gigantically and domestic spending also. brian: to the tune of 80 and then 85 billion. steve: increases defense spending by 85 billion in 2018. or domestic by 63 billion. ainsley: what's that mean what's domestic spending like infrastructure? steve: paul ryan said yesterday if you're going to go ahead and spend money domestically you might as well do...