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Key measure of inflation is going to be released. consumer price index. that measures the cost of a basket of goods and services, including transportation, food, medical care. investors will be paying attention. so will be the fed. chris? back to you. spoon deirdre bolton of the fox business network at the end of a wild week. get some rest. you probably slept through the second government shutdown of the new year. it came and went overnight. just like before, the temporary solution comes with an expiration date not too far in the future. correspondent peter doocy is on capitol hill tonight to ...

Now it's off to the president. he can sign it quickly. keep in mind, this bill extends funding levels until march 23rd. it sets up the parameters for the budget caps in the next two years. now appropriators get to work with those budget caps and basically write the checks to these various departments. but congress is going to have to be back on march 23rd to approve what we call an omnibus funding bill that actually does cut the checks. so we'll see that come march 23rd. >> we know, molly, that democrats wanted assurances on daca here, nancy pelosi looking to paul ryan for assurances that they...

Would keep congress under strict budget caps. paul saying he isn't voting for more debt. >> if you were against president obama's deficits and now you're for the republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy? don't you the remember when republicans howelled to high heaven that president obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into a oblivion. now republicans are doing the same thing. >> so where does that senate bill go from here? joining us now from the capital is nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. very long night for you and everyone else there. ...

To debate the amendment and then have a vote on the amendment. that amendment would maintain the current budget caps, which is the $300 million spending deal does away with. what you saw before senator paul started speaking was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and senate democratic leader chuck schumer come to the floor and essentially do something that was a little bit choreographed. senator schumer making clear if senator paul gets an meantime i have a lot of guys that have problems with this deal, too they're going to want amendments. what they were trying to say there is given the de...

What are budget caps? these are limits we placed on spending, both military and non-military. we placed them in 2011, and guess what? for a year or two government actually shrunk. but now government's taking off and this new stimulus of deficit spending will be as big as president obama's stimulus. don't you remember when republicans howled to high heaven that president obama was spending us into the gutter, spending us into oblivion, and now republicans are doing the same thing. and so i ask the question, whose fault is it? republicans'? yes. democrats'? yes. it's both parties' fault. you rea...