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It perhaps late in january so that's another thing to watch. and then of course the children's health insurance program. there are millions of kids that rely on that program and right now it's only funded through march. you can see that pretty long list there. there's also of course disaster relief, lots of places in the u.s. suffering from disasters last year. congress did not get that done. so really this -- the environment is so contentious right now, craig, that it's really hard to see how any one of these issues gets solved, even if you just pick one out of the pile, let alone all of them...

Another temporary short-term funding deal. how difficult is that for folks at the pentagon to be planning militarily? >> well, it's an absolute recipe for disaster. you can't run the defense department that way. you can't do multiyear contracts. have you no new starts whatsoever. every year we lose billions of dollars as a result of it. and, here's the thing that they have got to do. while the congress has authorized and president trump has signed into law now an authorization bill of $700 billion for defense, that only authorizes the appropriators to decide how much of that they are going to ...

Entitlements as paul ryan has said. they'll have to get on the same page before they can make a major push like infrastructure. >> another agenda item here that has people hot under the collar is understandably, the defense budget. the president laid out $700 billion in his budget for military spending next year. as you know, we have budget caps in place from 2011 that need to be repealed and he wants to actually get to that number. how do you think the president and congress, more importantly, it will juggle that when they come back from break? >> frankly it is yet another question they will ...

Continuing resolution pass until the 19th of next month without having something in there for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. why did this not make it into the cr. >> we stormed senator schumer's office with other congressional hispanic members and wanted as many senators to vote no as possible. it went from 14 to 32 in the last cr. but we were promised to lay it all down on the line january 19th when budget caps are discussed because the republicans desperately want military increases and our d.r.e.a.m.ers are number one. they are number one priority and inspiring america and we need to stand by these kid...

Explain. >> leland: president trump signed that bill earlier this month. budget caps from 2011 remain on the books robbing the pentagon of billions of dollars. the chairman of the house armed services committee says both parties are to blame. >> most everybody agrees we need to spend more on defense but you've got republicans who want to cut other parts of the budget. democrats that want to increase other parts of the budget. everybody is trying to use the defense budget as leverage for these other things. i think that's wrong. >> leland: congress has approved a short-term spending plan to kee...