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More of a challenge. so far those gays are taking up, we just hit 70 eas for democrats. we should talk about what is in here when we get down a little bit. >> $165 billion for the military, $131 billion for domestic programs. on the republican side republicans were pushing for the increase in military spending but in order to get that they had to cave on domestic programs, $131 billion, the reason rand paul was filibustering long into the evening and delaying this vote until right now. we were expecting this earlier. carly: rand paul is one of the reasons we arguably missed that midnight deadl...

Best thing we have done for our economy, our military, our middle-class, for a long time. >> this deal provides $165 billion for the military, $130 billion more for domestic programs, a debt ceiling increase through march 2019, disaster will be funding for hurricane and wildfire victims and keep the government open through march 23rd. speaker paul ryan want to deal on daca but the whole house should support this because it makes america safer and stronger. problems may lie on the house's conservative freedom caucus. >> i'm not only a no, i don't know if we have enough votes among members to st...

Levels, democrats are talking about, how close are republicans to getting a deal on plussing up military, plus the domestic programs? >> well, the budget caps are obviously a very important. our military families told us over and over again that readiness is being affected. and there is one thing that the military hates worse than a continuing resolution, and that is a government shutdown. so the most important thing is that we get government to reopen and continue the negotiations on the budget caps, which will give the military and some of our domestic programs like opioid funding the money ...

President promised he would not sign, what does that mean for them in 2018 as they head to november? >> i think they're setting themselves up for political failure. a tax cut that's skewed for wealthier americans and corporations, with the campaign in the next few months to cut social security, medicare, other forms of domestic programs will allow democrats to say look, the republicans are cutting taxes for the wealthy and they're paying for it on the backs of disadvantaged americans and i don't think the republicans can afford that given where the poll numbers are. if they do that i think the...

Larger budget deficits to spend more on defense? >> i am. here is the deal. we cannot wait to have safe air fleans for our pilots to fly in until we get our budget house in order. that's not fair to them and it's not fulfilling that first responsibility of the federal government. there is a lot of domestic programs i personally would be happy to cult. i'm fine with that. the parole money is in mandatory intedged. this has got to be a back and forth between the administration and congress to figure out how to do it. our job on the armed services committee is to be clear about what it takes to f...