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to spend less and we achieved that goal. was it everything i wanted? no. but sitting with one house, a democratic senate and a democratic president who didn't want to meet with us, i think we did pretty dang good for the american public. our correspondent, nomia iqbal, has the latest from capitol hill. there was a sigh of relief in the chamber when it was finally announced the bill has passed the house of representatives. remember, the magic number was 218. in the end, 314 voted yes, so they overwhelmingly backed the bill. in terms of breaking it down in numbers, ultimately more demo...

We should not wait any longer – the Legislature must take up the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL) as soon as possible to ensure our schools have budget certainty.

Table a lot of uncertainty economically. that is also important going into an election year where both democrats and republicans want to have budget certainty and predictability as they are out on the campaign trail. >> a rare moment of cooperation in washington, d.c. to say the least. kelly o'donnell live at the white house. thank you, kelly. shock waves across the pond this morning. the controversial man now set to be britain's next prime minister. how he plans to repair growing strains between the u.s. and uk over iran who the president might want out and the outspoken congressional all...

Points. one on the immediate affect of what a shutdown would have on military gathering of intelligence, what it would do in terms of training. but his broader point of what the short-term spending bills do to readiness, at a certain point, you remember president trump wants another short spending bill but he said the short-term bills on continuing resolutions do more harm to readiness along with the budget balanced act than any of the u.s. enemies over the last ten years. and then his final point, and this is the whole purpose of this speech, was the national defense strategy, working on this...

Operations will still be done. it is not going to be affected in real practical terms by a shutdown. that said, it continues to be harmed and i think in a very significant severe way by these continuing resolutions. what that means, and, again, barbara touched on this, they have to use funding from last year. they can't buy new equipment. some of the modernization and maintenance efforts will be damaged, there may be training curtailment. there is a real damage by the continuing resolution. that is no way to continue to fund the military. what they really need is some budget certainty as oppos...