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But what bothers you is they are busting the spending gaps to do it and yet we are still in debt. >> what bothers me is that the immigration debate is separate from this particular debate about funding the government. steve: right. >> i'm saying if you can't get a separate deal on immigration and fix it by march, then shut it down. steve: the president is reminding the democrat by saying yeah, let's have a shut down. last time there was a shut down, they wound up with a bloody nose. >> they did, indeed. did the sky fall, brian, when the government shut down for three days? what happened? did w...

Not in president obama's expected to veto a sweeping defense spending bill later today, because of how the measure was funded. the white house is opposed to any increase in military spending if it doesn't also come with an increase in domestic spending. this bill circumvents the spending gaps by adding $38 billion to a separate war fighting account. the obama administration called it a quote, funding gimmick, while congressional republicans call the veto threat irresponsible. we're learning new details about the meeting between syrian president bashar al assad, and russian president vladim...

>> we're paying about 18,000 per prisoner just to keep them, house them, the security, for the facilities. >> while corrections budgets keep growing, lawmakers in georgia and other states are deciding where else to cut and has some education advocates worried. >> and unfortunately it's up high and the revenue, not only in the nation are trading the last several years and the battle for the funds is more serious than before. >> many states have large spending gaps between spending and corrections and georgia spends nearly $18,000 per prisoner each year, but only about $3800 for students. law en...

>> we're paying about 18,000 per prisoner just to keep them, house them, the security, for the facilities. >> while corrections budgets keep growing, lawmakers in georgia and other states are deciding where else to cut and has some education advocates worried. >> and unfortunately it's up high and the revenue, not only in the nation are trading the last several years and the battle for the funds is more serious than before. >> many states have large spending gaps between spending and corrections and georgia spends nearly $18,000 per prisoner each year, but only about $3800 for students. law en...

Discrepancy, the states spend about $29,000 per inmate per year but only about $10,000 per student. it's a price gap that is not going anywhere. >> as state lawmakers across the station wrangle over budget difficulties many are trying to keep up with the increasing costs to run overcrowded prisons. >> we're paying about $18,000 per prisoner just to keep them, to house them, for security, for facility. >> reporter: corrections budgets keep going, lawmakers in georgia and other states are deciding where to cut. it has education advocates are worried. >> the pie has been shrink go so the battle f...