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but is it expected to pass? hi the very latest from capitol hill, all thingswashin hitchhiker s guide to washington, d.c. in the swamc., inp cad program is t us . chad, what s going o on ? we expect this to pass, don t we? yeah, sean , good evening.go in fact, we think that they re going to start this 3 mn vote here in the next two tout three minutes. they started this debate at seven , 17 eastern time. and we think thi the actuankl rl call vote is going to come any. minute here. so it s pending. dwe do o expect a bipartisanrs to vote coalition of democrats and gop . house speaker kevin mccarthy members to vote yes. house speaker kevin mccarthy made the closing argumen tt. he said don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. i could say i m going to vote no because there s something re summnot in the bill. if i took that philosophy, i would never vote yes . i simply read the bills in front of me and decide, is this good for the country? i would say that answerhat ....
And thirty five members of the house of representatives were down at leastey one todayof because democratic representative angie craig injureangie crd her leg ad to have surgery. so she s out. but you still 218 with four hundred and thirty four total members, if that s how manthat y members cast their ballots tonight. but they are way above that threshold, right? this will now. this will then go to the senate as early as tonight. but we do not expect any resolution there until friday. or maybe over the weekend, john . 278 well, actually , 218. chad e a hundred and one. no, chad, we really appreciatec it as always. take o by the way, katherine , let s get your take on . yeah. i mean, i think the issue for everyone is that compromise doesn t feel great, especiallyai if you re an ideologicalf person, especially so wth if you really want to get the budget under control. and it s so wildly inflated from the covid years and thenoty biden years at this point. right. doesn t feel gool d. fi ....
But is it expected to pass? hi the very latest from capitol hill, all thingswashin hitchhiker s guide to washington, d.c. in the swamc., inp cad program is t us . chad, what s going o on ? we expect this to pass, don t we? yeah, sean , good evening.go in fact, we think that they re going to start this 3 mn vote here in the next two tout three minutes. they started this debate at seven , 17 eastern time. and we think thi the actuankl rl call vote is going to come any. minute here. so it s pending. dwe do o expect a bipartisanrs to vote coalition of democrats and gop . house speaker kevin mccarthy members to vote yes. house speaker kevin mccarthy made the closing argumen tt. he said don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. i could say i m going to vote no because there s something re summnot in the bill. if i took that philosophy, i would never vote yes . i simply read the bills in front of me and decide, is this good for the country? i would say that answerhat an ....
Hours. and sean, i m just looking at th the house floor here. i believe that they are just about to start this roll call ju vote in fact, they just have already there are 55 votestes ot on the house. w ag they just started this. now, again, each roll call vote in the house is allottedloa for 15 minutes. t here you look at that clock on the lower part of the screenw that counts down. it will get down to zero. however, again, as i say, it s like soccer. they keep the time on the field . and so they will allow peoplee n to continue to come in, watch for democrats. to see a lot of h them might hold their votes back to see how many votes republicans post on the scoreboard first. and after republicans have put their votes on then the democrats will likelyth vote for the bill and bring this across the finish line. again, we re expecting a wide bipartisan vote on this tonight, sean . all tonight right, chad, thak you as always. we appreciate it.te it now, as outlined last night,debi this deb ....
Hakeem jeffries was wanting. now, the interesting thing her e is that there were more democrats who voted for this. one hundred sixty five , even though they are in so if the minority. and so, you know, if you listen to hakeem jeffries speech earlier tonight, he is goinghe to argue and h cane argued thism on the floor earlier, that it rp was democrats who were bailing ouublit republicans on this bil, even though it was a bipartisan pact between president bidenkevi and house speaker kevin mccarthy. now it s on ton mc w the senate. the senate is still in sessiongo tonight. they will actually get the piece of paper pr and beginis mitch to process this. mitch mcconnell earliemcr todacb he was optimistic thate, maybe, just maybe they could get this through on thursday. if that s the case, it would be late. he said it would sue firsmarkets, but they are through the first hurdle. it has passe thed the hous e getting the vote total 314 to 117. john . all right, chad, thank you . on capitol hil ....