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House speaker kevin mccarthy last spring. these overall figures track very closely to the agreement that had been reached when they came to that debt limit deal last year. a deal that wrinkled a lot of house republicans. already, there has been some opposition expressed to the latest deal struck by congressional leaders. the house freedom caucus expressing frustration with the figures included that it does not include more spending cuts. they said in a post that it was quote a total failure. there is also some concerns that conservatives could use this government funding deadline as leverage t...

Figures that are included that it does not include more spending cuts. they said in a post it was a total failure. there's also some concerns that conservatives could use this deadline as leverage to try to force more strict immigration and border policy changes. there's also real questions about whether lawmakers will be able to have the time to write these pieces of legislation, allocate the funding and get these bills passed with the first deadline on january 19th and a second deadline on february 2nd. president biden in his statement said, quote, congressional republicans must do their job...

Ukraine, and the white house has been working with the negotiators to reach some sort of agreement. and the white house is expressing optimism that the house leader mike johnson and the senate chuck schumer have reached an agreement, but it is still unclear if they will have to time and the will to get these funding bills passed before the january 19th and february 2nd deadlines and also whether the conservatives will try to use this to push forward stricker immigration and border policy changes. >> thank you, arlette and manu. we will talk further with michael schnell congressional reporter f...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is considering trying to negotiate directly with the White House on border policy changes that have so far been confined to a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators. A source familiar confirmed that Johnson said on a Thursday call with first-term GOP lawmakers that he was weighing talking to the White House directly on border…

Transitions to a lower intensity phase of fighting. that is something that the u.s. has encouraged israel do. and a senior u.s. official said they believed that they were starting to see the beginning of that strategy, that tactic, when it announced that they would be withdrawing some of their troops from gaza as israel is preparing for a prolonged fight heading into 2024. now, secretary of state antony blinken will be traveling to israel later in the week as he is expected to start talking about that next phase in fighting with officials on the ground there. but there is also a host of domest...