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In the house without a commitment from speaker ryan comparable to the commitment from leader mcconnell, this package cannot have my support. >> statements like that put the entire package in peril. republicans may not have enough of their own votes to support it without any help. that's because some conservatives are not happy that the spending cap that just went away are not matched by similar cuts elsewhere in the senate-backed bill. >> i think it's a bad deal. i think it's unfortunate this is where it goes. we were in a good position to break this idea that the democrats always get the defe...

Government. house republicans will say they have come up with a spending plan that they can get passed that they've passed through the house and that could get 51 votes in the senate. it can't get 60 in the senate because democrats won't come along. >> well, one of the reasons that that's the case is that republicans have never engaged democrats in trying to work a budget plan out. leland: oh, come on, real? >> leland, we're still faced with statutory budget caps that were part of the budget control act of 2011. before we do any spending plan we have to agree on what the spending caps will be....

Piece of legislation that would address spending cap and disaster aid and immigration. if there is no agreement by february 8th then lead ermoer mcconnell prieomises on a vote. no commitment on what it will turn out and what the house of representatives will do. in the past they have not taken the issues of immigration even after the senate passes something. there is no direction on what the white house will do. a lot of people think the democrats caved. if you try to be charitable, they got something but not a whole lot. >> what of the chance of this happening again all again in three weeks. ...

Rougher consensus on what a tax bill should look like where on health care a lot of variety, you know, some wanted to keep entitlements, others wanted a spending cap, and what's the compromise? paul: so, mary, still some philosophical coherence still there for the republicans unlike health care. some people on the edges did want to turn the tax cut into a more redistributionist tax cut, and that restrained some of the rate cuts on the individual side. but still they got the main stuff done. >> yeah. i think, actually, there's a story about how joe manchin, senator from west virginia -- paul: d...

Continue. now, as kristen laid out, there are essentially two big issues here. the spending cap part of it. just how much money the government's going to spend on military issues, and on domestic issues. democrats want the numbers to be equal. republicans think they can force the -- military number to be sig consequently higher. the second a daca. the fix for daca. something for these d.r.e.a.m.ers in the country now. democratic leaders have said they don't -- nancy pelosi said today she doesn't want to go home end of december without it being softed. democrats also don't want to shut down the...