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bipartisan cocktail of votes to pass. but there's bipartisan opposition. >> i'm not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. it's the largest savings of 1.1 trillion we have ever had. >> number votes he might be. >> i haven't. >> necessary to do to make sure. >> you have been here a long time. any time there is an agreement with two parties, there's always two parties who vote for it at the end. >> minority leader hakeem jeffries say democrats will hold up their end of the bargain. >> we also are committed to making sure occurs that the house republicans keep their promise t...

Some money over the summer in what was known as a rescissions package. but after it was clear that package was not going to go through and the money was still being held up, members of congress had a lot of concerns. in fact, they were preparing an amendment over an offense appropriations bill basically to release the money and force future years' administrations to release the money on time. right before that appropriations markup is especially when the administration announced that they would actually release the funding. so it had been a long time coming on capitol hill. there are few issue...

Little bit more tension to come. my last question to you is about something that the house republicans, some house republicans are planning to do. congressman mark walker had an op-ed in the "wall street journal" today asking for you to do something. he said that last september the house performed the constitutional duty and passed all the appropriations bills required to fund fully the federal government. we sent the bills to the senate before the beginning of the fiscal year and mr. mcconnell sat on them. the package mr. trump sent yesterday is good and his base should be encouraged in this ...

Need and can't even spend. you know the political calculation here. so many republicans, mic, were steamed that the president and the president congress went along with gigantic spending bill. i know you are trying to claw some back before the november election. really, it's just a drop in the bucket. >> by the way, if it passes it's more than a drop in the bucket. it will be the largest rescissions package in history. keep in mind most presidents used to do. this. steve: right. but it's $15 billion out of 1.3 trillion-dollar gigantic spend palooza. >> no question by that why we are at 1.3 i h...

Was put on twitter by george then they dump an appropriations h.w. bush. bill and they can either keep bush 41 surrounded by members of all of the current living the government open or shut it presidential administrations. down. so it's a switch that the you have the clintons, the owe president has to face. bam as, melania trump, george if congress would do its job and get a appropriations bill on bush, george w. bush. time, there probably wouldn't be andrea, you were there. a rescissions package. as i said, it felt like america was burying its grandma. >> there's news that indeed the >> it di...