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Real politics. the federal government could be on the vernal of shutting down. as a battle is brewing over the fiscal year. today they said they will approve a stop gap bill that will keep them running till december. republicans also plan to insist on spending cuts. president obama denounced the move. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states, the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party, and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt. >> let's get t...

November 2009. >> it is another short term fix with one week to go the democratic controlled senate has passed a stopgap bill to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year. as the measure provide $982 billion. the bill lost in the $85 billion of federal spending cuts that went into effect at the beginning of this month. the house is expected to approve the bill. it could vote as soon as today. >> there's a startling new figure out that shows at least 1 million children in the united states are autistic. do grandfathers play a role in that? according to a new swedish study t...

It requires the government to keep current staffing levels at detention centers for undocumented immigrants. boosts embassy security by $2 billion. and funds the government through september the 30th. but if the gop is working to mitigate disaster for defense, they're far from rolling back the sequester reductions. democrats wanting to restore head start or health care funding, of course, came away empty handed. indeed, new estimates from the congressional budget office show that under the stopgap bill, current appropriations levels will drop by about $59 billion leaving the president less rea...

Here in the states. >> were they using the military as negotiation tactics? i hate to say pawns, but as part of the negotiation in this process? >> i think that was in the back of their minds. i don't know what went on inside the room, whether or not that was a big part of the discussion. i think, clearly, everybody felt strongly that the military needed to be paid. it's the reason why when the republicans pass their latest stopgap bill, they included the full pay for the military going out into september 30th. >> as we watched all this play out in the sunday shows this morning, people were sa...

Getting a check. the troops should not be a political football. that should not be a game. >> and newt gingrich, you may remember, he was a key player in the last government shutdown. he tweeted the president was using our men and women in uniform as bargaining chips. for president obama and the democrats, the stopgap bill is a distraction. a cynical republican ploy that blocks the real budget deal. but the democrats are playing their games, too. hyping the republicans' ideological agenda. representative linda sanchez telling msnbc it's unconscionable to me that they're using these families, r...