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Republicans have a packed agenda when they return to congress on september 5th. among their essential tasks, passing a new spending bill and raising the debt ceiling by month's end. but last night in phoenix, president trump threw a monkey wrench into those plans. >> build that wall. now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. but believe me, we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> the president is threatening to shut down the government if congress doesn't pass a spending bill that includes money for a border wall. the same wall the president repeat...

You can't move things from less important things in order to make certain essential tasks are taken care of. >> there are others, this is just a drop in the bucket. >> sure it is. yeah, now, remember the sequester affects $85 billion worth of spending. we have a federal budget this year will be $3.5 trillion. that is over 3500 billions of dollars. now the problem is this falls in the discretionary side of the budget which is, you know, a very small fraction of the budget. most of the budget is on mandatory, autofy lot. congress didn't revisit every year. there are set formulas that dictate how...