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ceiling should be prime aread. republicans are calling for a governnt shutdown until a new administration is sworn in. house democrats express their support for the bipartisan spending agreement that was reached earlier this week to fund the government until march 14 before the president-elect weighed in. and punch bowl says there could be a vote in the house tonight but unclear what they will be voting on and cites that leadership would like to get this over as soon as possible. the house is currently in recess subject to the call of the chair. when members return, we will have live coverage. e is a lot of confusion, and i'm sorry to you when it comes to tomorrow night's spending deadline, in a way we have not seen since october of last year.

kevin mccarthy lost his gavel, and we are against a deadline with no clear plan how to move forward. house leaders scrambled late last night because of the new plan after the president-elect and his advisor, elon musk, and the committee decided to kill the bill. host: what is going on with the new request for raising the debt ceiling, can you explain? caller: that came out nowhere yesterday. it had not been a part of the spending talks, but jd vance sent a tweet that president trump wanted that app to be taken care of before he takes office. right now, the treasury is such a run out, which typically the party that is the minority uses that to get concessions so trump

wanted that taken care of. and it is pretty difficult to see the situation and if that will be included in the stopgap spending bill. and we do need democrats in the senate to get on board. host: what is the likelihood of an actual government shutdown? caller: i'm always an optimist when it comes to spending and working out a deal, but i think we are at least in the past few years, in uncharted territory here with the trump administration returning and the level of authority when it comes to at the president-elect would like. it is a little more clear about the divide, but it did not become that way until wednesday, right up until the deadline. at this point, we do have the

christmas holiday lingering, and there is no clear path that this forward point -- point forward. host: you mentioned kevin mccarthy losing his gavel over a similar situation. what does it look like for mike johnson keeping the speakership? caller: we are still away from january 3 from where i'm sitting, and there are some members who are upset about how this is handled, what as long as he maintains a supportive budget, i think you will end up continuing to be speaker at this point. it is definitely a lot harder now that it was a few days ago. host: explain how today and tomorrow play out. what are you watching and what is the process? right now, we are waiting for signs from how speakership about with the next call will be. yesterday they had a 1500 page

bill with 100 billion for disaster aid, 10 billion for farmers, a member pay raise, transferring ownership of the arcade city and back to d.c., on and on, many provisions. so house republicans right now are trying to come up with a new plan that they think can get the support of the house. that said, democrats are pretty clear at this point, they are not on board, they had an agreement. that is what they wanted to go with, and it will be difficult to see how to move forward at this point. at the end of the day, we will have to wait to see what democrats decide to do and these deadlines are so close to christmas, which is really motivating them to get out of here. host: aiden quigley for cq roll

call, you can find his work online. thank you for getting up with us this morning. caller: thank you. host: we will take your calls. our question for the first half-hour is your comments essentially on being 1.5 days away from a potential government shutdown, and we start with doug , ohio, independent. caller: -- good morning morning and merry christmas. i would like to say president musk and vice president trump have got it bad this time if you think about it. the only people who will suffer are the poor people in either one of them know what that is. and the congressman, the republican congress has got to learn how to speak for their own minds and not worry about getting primary every two years. these people are mckinley sick already and they are not even in office. host: eric, maryland, democrat. caller: good morning.

i agree with the last caller. it is going to be more of the same. i think the government will get shut down to show their power, even if it is for a day. and it is. i think half of my friends who voted for trump, this will only hurt them. anything that these billionaires will do is for themselves, and they will stop on the poor to get there, and i cannot believe that he won the popular vote and is compared to ronald reagan read it is shameful. i'm a veteran, i served seven years in the infantry. i'm shocked. i cannot believe that this man represents the christian national movement and has all these billionaires in his administration. i mean, trump on $23 million was

homes, i'm just dumbfounded. i heard the news this morning driving to work and i'm dumbfounded. thank you. host: here is the republican line in ohio, justin. good morning. caller: good morning. i don't know what that gentleman is talking about with christian nationalism. silly comment. here's what i'm optimistic about, speaker johnson figures out what is happening in the selection, he passes a spending bill and cuts government spending by 1%, sends it to the senate and the hospital his home and he tells chuck schumer that his job once, this senate is a joke. they don't pass budgets, have not passed a single appropriations bill. democrats are hell bent on disrupting america. host: would you like to see a

clean cr so no additional funding, etc.? caller: our government is so bloated. what do they need for those additional things? they can cut defense spending. they can cut other departments to focus on important things that need funding. you don't need a clean anything. we need to stop deficit spending. it is question americans and they are too ignorant to know what deficit spending is doing to the dollar. two emirate to know that the interest expenses on our debt will surpass the pentagon. people have got to be smarter about economics in this country. we have a massive financial literacy problem. host: let's look at what hakeem jeffries says, the democratic leader in the house. he made a statement to reporters last night saying essentially republicans are on their own.

[video clip] >> senate democrats and republicans reached a bipartisan agreement to fund the government and meet the needs of the american people. we need a bipartisan agreement to provide disaster assistance to everyday americans who have been upended and have been turned upside down as a result, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and other types of extreme weather events. we reached a bipartisan agreement to meet the needs of the american people and provide assistance to farmers, families, children, seniors, veterans, men and women in uniform, and working-class americans.

house republicans have no unilaterally decided to break a bipartisan agreement that they made. house republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt everyday americans all across this country. house republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the american people that results from a government shutdown or worse. an agreement is an agreement. it was bipartisan, and there's nothing more to say. [end video clip] host: that was later hakeem jeffries last night at the capitol. white, independent, california,

good morning -- dwight, independent, california, good morning. caller: good morning. firstly, there is no such thing as a department of government agency. it is two private citizens who are walking around the nation's capital that are telling elected officials what it is that they're going to do, and that is exactly what they are doing. as far as the government shutdown is concerned. the american people have spoken, so let it fly. let's see what happens. i'm 72. i've heard this government shutdown year after year. i think going probably all the way back to richard nixon probably,, go through this all the time. and every seasoned citizen, let it fly. let's see what happens. this is with the american

populace voted for. they are going to shut the government down, and they also spoke of raising the debt ceiling, so we know there will be more spending and more spending and more spending, and we are going to get what we voted for. when i say we, i'm speaking the majority of the american electorate wanted this. so we have what we have. thank you so much. host: patty, pennsylvania, democrat. caller: just wanted to say that i do not vote for either. trump is owned by elon musk. he gave him hundreds of millions of dollars, and so now he owns the republicans. these oligarchs that are now running our country, people are going to protest. if they shut this government down, friends of mine were

saying we will never vote again anymore republicans in office. if you remember what donald trump said, that if he gets into office, he promised his christian nationalists that they would never have to vote again, so if they shut down the government this time, i think there will be a real uprising. thank you. host: gina, alabama, republican. caller: hi, mimi. m i coming in clear this time? host: yes, go right ahead. caller: happy holidays and happy new year. i only get to call every 30 days. number one, i'm the one who always calls about them double giving, rating agencies and then getting the budget and spending it forgetting the whole budget

and spending it in six months, but number two, i would like to mention that the good news is that the national defense operation act did get past and my son and his buddy are on active duty, and they just made it in at 5:15 this morning. so glad to have sets of boots in the house for christmas. another thing is i agree that we shared shut it down, but i would like to reassure social security recipients, federal employees that are retired and everything, you are not going to miss a check. they don't need to be scaring the old people that they are not going to get there social security, and you have a wonderful, blessed day. host: as gina said, the senate

to pass the 895 billion dollars defense filled with cbs news staying with controversial gender affirming care restrictions, it says this was approved yesterday on wednesday, despite concerns from democrats over a controversial policy restricting gender care for children and servicemembers. the vote was 85-14. the senate approved, which the house passed last week. 11 democrats and three republicans voted against it in the upper chamber cannot heads to the president's desk for his signature. jason, alabama, independent. good morning. caller: good morning caller. first, i appreciates like gina. i really do -- i appreciate callers like gina, i really do, just putting the cards on the table and say, i would like the government to be shut down.

we live in a state dependent on federal dollars. the budget of alabama is like 30 to 40% based on federal funds, and then gina calls and says, hey, shut down the government and turn off that 30% to 40%, and they what are we going to do? it speaks to what others are talking about, this is not going to happen, that is going to happen, trump is a liar, blah, blah. republican voters wanted from to be able to sit on his couch at mar-a-lago and run congress, call them percent on the border bill, the bipartisan border bill just to tell mike johnson what to do because mike johnson is the least experienced figure in the history of speakers, so he's going to do whatever trump tells him because that is what his caucus would like to do.

there voters would like them to be there, they don't want them to be productive at all. i do not want the government to shut down because you cannot guarantee what is and is not going to happen because the money from the federal government funds a lot of things. and it would make sense for them to do their job and pass the budget, but the republican voters do not want that to happen, and i appreciate when they come out and just say it instead of trying to hide it. host: let's take a look -- this is president-elect trump and vice president-elect vance's statements, posted on x yestthatays increasing the debt ceiling is not great, but we would ratherit on biden'h. if democrats will not cooperate now, what makes anyone think they would do in june during our nisttion? let's have the debate now, and we should patreained

spending bill that does not giv chuck schumer and the democrats everything they would like. republicans would like to support farmers and set our y up for success at 2025. th way to do that is with the temporary funding bill without democrat giveaways. combined with an increase in the debt ceiling, anything else is a betrayal of our country. susan, tennessee, democrat. caller: a lot of people said what i wanted to say, actually. i don't know if anybody remembers trump shut the government down for the longest in history last time, and i swear, i heard them say they wanted to give themselves a raise. is that real? host: yes. as part of the deal that has died, that was a cost-of-living increase for lawmakers.

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