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Government funding actually rupps out 20 days from now. instead of passing next year's spending bills, congress is again going to kick it down the road. just today, the bipartisan house and senate leadership has scheduled a crisis meeting for tomorrow. house republicans had wanted to stop gap measure this week past the end of this month. they postponed everything because the g.o.p. can't agree on how best to try to force the senate to consider defunding obama care is a total meltdown because the democratic majority of the senate isn't going to take any of that up. there is a lot more the debt ...

It was community people. >> reporter: two weeks ago a major blow her kids like dozens of others in columbus would be staying home all because of the sequester. those deep across the board spending cuts that forced federal programs like head start to cutback. in columbus that meant holding a lottery to see which students would stay or go. her children's names didn't get picked. >> she's reading off the names and you're praying for her to read your name. she hasn't said my name yet. you get down to the end of the name and they tell you that's it. it's a shock. it's a shock. >> reporter: administ...

It was community people you knew from your community. >> reporter: two week ago, a may know blow when jones learned her kids like dozens of others in columbus would be staying home. all because of the sequester. those deep across the board spending cuts that forced federal programs like head start to cut back. in columbus, that meant holding a lottery to see which students would stay or go. their name didn't get picked. >> she is reading off this name and you're waiting, waiting, and praying for her to read your name. like she hasn't said my name yet. then you get down to the end of the name a...

Another industry besides this industry, it's clean, high wages, et cetera and he says he wants to encourage manufacturing. bill: we'll see fit happens. appreciate your time. steve ferguson, thank you out of indiana with us today. we'll follow it. thank thank you, sir. martha: the president is expected to speak just a few minutes from now to put pressure on congress to make a move on the across the board spending cuts that congress is facing at first of the month. bret baier is with us live to get ready for the president's statement in a moment. bill: brace yourself. there is another big storm ...

Ceiling at the end of december when they're home, so they want to do it now so they don't have to come back at the end of the year. >> it's a different dynamic, republicans are willing to play more around the debt ceiling. that's one reasons the democrats want to take care of it now. republicans would rather leave that for later. >> the story is going to be, i think, it's going to shift a little bit from republicans trying to make their way toward more revenues or agreeing to a higher tax rate for the top earners to democrats trying to do something about spending. i mean, there are a number of...