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Hello, everyone. Good morning. It is saturday, september 30th. Im amara walker. And im omar jimenez. Youre in the cnn newsroom. The government is barrelling towards a shutdown with no solution in sight. Today is the last day for congress to pass a funding bill to keep the government open. You see the count down. Now the clock is ticking. Right now House Republicans are in a closed door meeting to try and come up with a last minute solution. But just last night House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy once again failed to pass a Stop Gap Bill in his chamber and now he is warning that the senate bill wont p...

Several Republican lawmakers expressed their displeasure on Monday with House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) plan to move forward with a continuing resolution to fund the government, which would keep spending levels the same rather than cutting them.

Children's health program for six years. that's c.h.i.p., which i should be a major draw for democrats. but that's not exactly so fast on that one. we'll get into that in a second. also just in, official traveling with the president on board air force one reaffirms the white house does not expect a government shutdown and that the president is prepared to speak with lawmakers on both sides to see what they're calling a, quote, clean cr. to capitol hill we go. tell me more, when we hear clean cr from the white house, what does that mean and where -- would that include c.h.i.p., not include c.h....

Should be. i mean, that's what our constitution calls for, a majority vote, the majority passed obama care was a slender majority, as you say. you say it's very possible a majority in the house would pass a so-called clean cr. isn't that constitutional the way the system works? >> remember, though, the constitution also says the speaker will be elected to be the speaker of the whole house and that the majority controls the house of representatives, that's also the structure for government and they determine the things that will be debated and voted upon and that always hasn't made me happy, ei...

Just take the so-called clean cr. but it is not clean at all. because it does have the sequester in it. >> but you -- it seems like you have ended up in a situation, i don't know if this is by grand design on their part or just a happy coincidence for them. but you ended up in a place where exactly what you described is happening, the democrats are in a place of, well, fine, have your sequester, we just don't want a debt default, should democrats have been applying pressure the other way so that the terms are not just that, they are oh, do something about the sequester, too. >> well, don't for...