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cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> jennifer shutt is an appropriation and budget reporter for cq roll call, and she joins us to talk about government spending and the deadline looming at the end of the month. jennifer, how are things looking for congress to meet this end of the month, september 30 deadline to avoid a federal government shut down and fund the government? jennifer: things are actually looking pretty good right now for congress. they will not get all 12 of the annual spending bills passed on time, that we think they will

get anywhere between five and nine of those bills passed on time. president trump has signed the first three into law, then the defense and labor spending package has passed the senate and is expected to get a house vote before the end of the month. that bill contains $855 billion in spending. it is only two bills but it is a large chunk. we still have another four bills being worked out behind-the-scenes by appropriators that could or could not get to his desk before the end of the fiscal year on september 30. >> you talked about the president a little bit. he just signed a package of bills into law, $147 billion worth. your article says, "now comes the hard part." talk a little bit about how that works if we do not get all of the spending bills passed. how do they make that deadline? jennifer: there is a provision in the defense labor spending package that is called a continuing resolution. what that will do for any of the 12 annual bills that do not pass by the time the new fiscal bill begins on october 1 is it will keep those running on autopilot

for the current fiscal year. it will keep with the same spending levels they have now and keep up the vast majority of the policy language that they have now through december 7, which is the length of that continuing resolution. and then, lawmakers sort of hope by then that they would have a final resolution, a final report to the president by that deadline. there is a lot of negotiating that has to happen between now. and then of course the midterm elections are in that window. >> we talked a little bit about congress' strategy to avoid a government shutdown. part of it, though, the big piece that could be the sticking point is the border wall. president trump tweeted, "i want to know where is the money for border security and the wall in this ridiculous spending bill? where will it come from after the midterms? democrats are obstructing law enforcement and border security. republicans must finally get tough."

where is congress on the border wall funding? jennifer: when the president sent his budget request back in february for 2019, he asked for $1.6 billion in spending in the homeland security bill. the senate put that will request in their homeland security bill, before the house released theirs, there was a bit of a tense meeting at the white house "no, i actually want $5 billion." that is the amount included in the house homeland security bill. a little while ago, congressional leaders, including speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, agreed with appropriators and white house staff, and as far as we were aware, president trump to hold that debate until after the midterms, and during the lame-duck session of congress, they would work out the issues. they would not have a public fight over the border wall before voters head to the polls in november. >> let's take a look at one last issue that is under consideration, which is hurricane funding. what have you heard about the effort, especially by north and south carolina lawmakers, to get

funding for some of the relief and recovery? jennifer: this year, the response of fema and others is vastly different than the response we had last year when those three major hurricane struck in a very short amount of time. we also had a lot of wildfires in the west. last year's fema disaster relief fund did not have a lot of money in it. this year, i believe they have about $26 billion available right now. last year, when hurricane harvey struck texas and louisiana in late august, they had about $2 billion. fema definitely has enough money in the disaster relief fund right now to respond to hurricane florence and the flooding in north carolina and south carolina. right now, fema is working along with several other agencies to assess the damage and try to put together what could become some type of supplemental disaster aid requests. we do not know yet if that will be sent to congress or how large of a timeline that may be.

there is still so much flooding in north and south carolina that the assessments are still in a very early stage. >> we will continue to follow your reporting at cq.com and your tweets. @jennifershutt. jennifer, thank you for your time. jennifer: they give are having me. -- thank you for having me. >> john kerry discusses his book. interviewed by jane harman. kerry: john mccain and i, seniority brought us together, and we had a conversation into the night, news service and his time as a prisoner, and he wanted to learn more about what happens to us and where we

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the upcoming midterm elections with charlie kelly, the executive director of the house majority pac. he is our guest this week on "newsmakers." we will show you the debate between candidates running in virginia's 10th congressional district, followed by house freedom caucus chair mark meadows. at 8:00 on "q&a," journalist and author major garrett talks about his new book on the trump presidency.