sunday at 7 a.m. eastern. and on tuesday, ken starr joins us to discuss his book. watch next week on c-span's washington journal. >> both the house and senate are set to return wednesday and to find out what they're up to, we talked to a reporter from capitol hill. >> lisa mascaro joins us for a look on spending bills. she is a congressional correspondent for the associated press. lisa, where do things stand at this point with the spending packages through congress? lisa: we are in really familiar terrain. congress is staring down at a september 30 deadline to fund the government. that is when the current bill runs out.

they have to get their spending bill passed by the end of the month to prevent a government shutdown by october 1. there was a strategy put in place that was unlike anything that seen in a long time and we tried to avoid this crisis of shutdown politics that we often see, but despite this strategy, they are still headed toward this potential problem. the core issue as it has in for a lot of years is this debate over the border wall. president trump ran on putting up a border wall between the southern u.s. and mexico.

congress has been unwilling to fund the wall at the level he once and that is the crops of the issue right now of whether or not congress can get to an agreement on the rest of the spending bill and get them past and approved and whether or not president trump puts up a fight over the funding he wants for his border wall. we can unpack that a little more if you want to hear some of the details. >> one of your colleagues has been writing about the president. he writes that the president has said if it happens, a shutdown happens it happens. it is about four security and the president says i'm willing to do anything, so how does that impact congress and its work on all these spending packages? ms. mascaro: let's just rewind and talk about what congress has been doing. earlier this year, there had been a government shutdown in february and when they finally were able to fund the government, the president had

this trillion dollar spending bill for the remainder of the year. he very reluctantly signed it. he said i don't want to do a big spending bill again. congressional leaders led by mitch mcconnell started trying to pass smaller clumps of spending bills. they have a series of these smaller packages that a are trying to get through the congress and get to the president's desk. they have made enormous progress this year. they have passed nine of the 12 smaller spending bills. they are in the middle of that process right now trying to get these bills agreed to between the house and the senate. the one bill they don't have on that list is the funding for the department of homeland security,

which is the funding for the border wall. the problem here is there are mixed minds as to whether it is better to engage over an issue of shutdown politics over the border wall ahead of the election. the president is indicating he thinks it is good politics and is a nation that revs up his base. house republicans who are struggling right now to hold on to the majority and same with senate republicans having a slim majority, they do not see good politics in any talks of a shutdown and when you look at the house in particular, the

most endangered members are the ones who are fighting for their political futures are those in swing districts in new york, california, places where they don't want to have to address this immigration politics and highlight the issue of the wall. the people that the president needs to hold onto the majority in congress, this talk of a shutdown is not really helpful for them. the president thinks it is good politics and gets folks excited. maybe not in those areas where they need voters the most. >> just briefly because in the senate, there is a pretty big package making its way through on opioids and it is a comprehensive legislation dealing with the opioid crisis. where do things stand here?

ms. mascaro: leader mcconnell did announce he would like to have a vote on that this week. this is a really big package. congress has struggled to find some agreement. as you mentioned, the house passed a big bill, a number of bills. the senate package is also quite robust. i will say the senate's schedule this week is truncated. they are out for a couple of days at the start and of course, a big storm headed this way, so the schedule is a little up in the air. they are indicating they would like to have a vote on that by thursday and the net package would need to be reconciled before it can be sent to the president's desk.

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