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Legislative negotiators filed a compromise $56.2 billion annual state budget Sunday night, packing major education, transportation and health care policy measures and spending into an overdue fiscal 2024 accord that is expected to win House and Senate approval on Monday. ....
We are getting this done. thank you. president biden up on capitol hill today telling democratic senators you just heard him say it, we re going to get this done. after lawmakers announced a deal on a 3 1/2 trillion dollars spending package. let s go back to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins, she s joining us along with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. you have new details emerging right now about what s actually in this new budget package that senate democrats have agreed on. what are you learning? yeah, that s right. and there s a lot of optimism among democrats about this $3.5 trillion package, but there s a long way to go before it ends up on president biden s desk, in part because we don t know specifically what s going to be in it. so far these budget negotiators ....
Another $131 billion in nondefense spending, that includes a number of domestic programs including a ten-year extension for the children s health insurance program. there will be another $90 billion in disaster relief, that will go to places like texas and puerto rico and florida after these recent spat of hurricanes. and the debt ceiling is going to be hiked until march of 2019. which was something budget negotiators were concerned about, they would come up with a spi spending plan but distill have to deal with the debt ceiling. even though they hashed out issues with the budget, they have another big standoff in front of them what to do about immigration, in exchange for this budget deal, essentially, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell promised senate democrats that they re going to bring some sort of a bill to the floor that will address daca. there is no assurances that that bill will pass and no assurances it will make it through the house and be signed by president trump. so ....
Issue. if we don t get this, gang members, not only ms13, if we don t change, it let s do a shutdown. it s worth it for our country. i d love to see a shutdown if we don t get this stuff taken care of. i d love to see a shutdown. the white house later saying the president was not advocating for the shutdown. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders turning the president s shutdown comments back on to democrats saying if they want to hold the government hostage over immigration, the president welcomes that fight. in case a budget deal is not settled by midnight tomorrow, the house passed a short-term bill funding most accegencies through march 23rd and the senate for a full year. budget negotiators are on track to announce a two-year deal as soon as this morning with. with the latest, phil mattingly ....
Country. i d love to see a shutdown if we don t get this stuff taken care of. the white house later saying the president was not advocating for the shutdown. he said, i d love to say a shutdown. the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, turning the president s shutdown comments back on to democrats saying if they want to hold the government hostage over immigration, the president welcomes the fight. in case a budget deal is not settled by midnight tomorrow, the house passed a short-term bill funding most agencies through march 23rd, and a pentagon for a full year. senate democrats likely to oppose it, but that may not matter. budget negotiators are on track to announce a two-year deal as soon as this morning. with the latest, we ll turn to phil mattingly. reporter: there s no question the clock is ticking down to the government running out of money, essentially needing to extend a short-term funding agreement. but the biggest development that s occurred up to this point is ....