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Is it possible that some of what happened here might ultimately be good for the american people? >> what we are seeing here is that when they talk about process, that is a smoke screen. what none of the representatives you just had on would take on is that they've already put this out there. this is their written agenda that they put forward during the midterms, that they are going to use the debt ceiling as leverage to take american seniors hostage. this is their plan. they voted to raise the debt ceiling three times under the trump administration. this is all about forcing us to make cuts to...

There will be a crisis come august when you've to get a debt ceiling. that's going to require real cooperation and i think will require democrats to get it through. >> the republican family sees like the borges right now. >> the idea of holding flat the defense spending, which, you know, look, we're in the middle of a war. we've given away a lot of military equipment to a country -- i've heard some grumbling about the idea we would agree to right now not increase defense spending. >> that'll come up in the budget. that's the '24 budget because the appropriations process is done. they're nautic...

Shutdown or default with devastating consequences to the country. what did you think of that? >> when i start caring about what chuck schumer says, pigs will be flying, but i would say, look, on the government shutdown aspect and you asked mr. perry this just a minute ago, of course, nothing is off the table, but we've also had some very good ideas how to free prevent that. and we could have a cr going through the appropriations process the way we'll go through the appropriations process. this is another big issue that american people have. why is everything just lumped into the omnibus bill a...

Need tens of billions of more dollars? we don't think so, but we think that the defense department needs to be on a consistent trajectory in order to compete with china, invest in the weaponry and technology that we need. so that's where the concern is, and we're going to hash that out in the appropriations process. so these are broad agreements on how we should think about the budget and broad agreements on how, that we generally agree on and there's going to be fights in the appropriations process about where that money comes from and how we pay for what, what we have to cut, et cetera, but ...

Careless spending. griff: alexandria hoff joining us live from washington with more. merry christmas eve. >> reporter: yeah, this bill funds the government through september '23, but it's getting criticism from both sides for this last minute holiday push on something as large as this. >> it appears the season of giving will line the pockets of democrats' special interests and stick the hard working americans with the tab. this is a monstrosity. it is one of most shameful acts i've ever seen in body. the appropriations process has failed the american public. >> reporter: all right. so about ha...