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Continued spending at last year's level without any reference to additional needs or changes in priorities. so that crs are stopgap measures at best and an indication of failure to do our job. we have sent to the senate a bill that has six of the bills unrelated to homeland security, and the senate ought to take them up and pass them. and we want to soft the department of homeland security problem today not next week, six weeks from now, or have a cr that lasts until september 30th. >> but friday night before the led dyne, are democrats willing

Day and if it continues for a significant period of time, is there an expectation that these people will continue to work week after week without getting paid? people can't do that. they can't live that way. >> the law expects it, but there can, like i said, there will have to be stopgap measures. people have to pay their bills. they will start to resign. by the way, if they work, don't pay -- aren't paid and then resign, the law says they still have to be paid retroactively if they work, aside from any stopgap measures. everybody hears about the government voting retroactively to pay people w...

Democrats want $0. $2.5 billion for border security sounds pretty reasonable. i think democrats are unable to explain why not. >> harris: if you are buying a house, i could see that. but, with this, apparently -- and representative carter of georgia told me this earlier, buddy carter -- that it's somewhat the lingo, too. can we get to a place where we just call it national board of security, as lindsey graham has suggested, senator? rather than calling it a wall? which is what is apparently offending democrats. >> it was $1.6 billion for border security. the president did have that on the tabl...

Reporting, we heard it was somewhere in the realm of $2.5 billion for border wall funding. according to mulvaney, democrats didn't even make a counteroffer. they said we're leaving and left for the holiday. he does not believe democrats want to make a deal. he says he has a gut feeling chuck schumer wants to move forward, but he believes nancy pelosi is holding the cards and she doesn't want to make a deal because it will impact her chances of becoming speaker of the house. listen to this. >> this all comes down to mrs. pelosi's speakership. i think left to his own devices, chuck schumer and t...

Floors of either body. our negotiations are off stage, in fact, many lawmakers aren't in washington, they rushed home last night with the understanding they will have 24 hours notice to return to vote on any prospective deal. the fact that there are a few people on capitol hill means they are not close to agreement. there will just be a skeleton crew on hand at the capitol. and the optimistic would be forging a deal today and returning late tomorrow. the senior house member says a more likely vote on the 27th or 28th. the biggest crowd are journalists. fox is told they're trying to forge on th...