extreme maga republicans face a clear choice. put the bipartisan continuous resolution on the house for an up-and-down vote, and we can avoid the extreme maga republican shutdown and end this nightmare being visited on the american people by marjorie taylor greene and others, or fail to put the bipartisan continuing resolution sent over from the senate on the floor of the house for an up or down vote, because your objective apparently as extreme maga republicans is to shut the government down. that is there objective, unless they force the american people to absorb their draconian, extreme right wing ideology. this is a government shutdown that may occur being visited upon the american people because they want to cut social security, slash public school funding and criminalize abortion care. that is what the theatrics of this week is all about. there is no reason for us to be considering bills that have no support in terms of passage in the united states senate, because the senate is actually is working on bipartisan legislation.

is it the position republicans might sign on to, that republicans are compromising around the cr, is it that they would be open to some of your ideas as they work through question or chair aguilar: leader jeffries has been clear. the only -- through? chair angular: leader jeffries has been clear. they have to fund the government in existing fy 2020 three levels. and we need to meet the needs of the ukrainian people fighting for their freedom and the urgent disasters that we have had across this country. which, by the way, also includes $4 billion for the border, that includes a hundred million dollars for fentanyl. this is something that republicans have talked about many times, but it proves once again that this is just about talking points for them. they don't want to actually solve this issue. they don't want to invest in fentanyl, they don't want to invest in the border. they don't want to pay custom and border patrol officers. they would rather force a shutdown, that's just what they want to do. and it's unfortunate for the american people to know that. >> the caucus has been ta

and if house republicans were to do that, we can avoid a catastrophic extreme maga republican government shutdown. not that complicated. and all we're asking house republicans to do is to keep their word and adhere to the agreement that they themselves reached, voted for, and negotiated in may. connected to their threat to default on america's debt. why are we in this situation? where extreme maga republicans seem determined to shut the government down. it's because the republicans and the right wing ideologues and the extremists in the howps want to cut social security, slash public school funding and criminalize abortion care. that is their ransom demand. and if everybody else in the house and in the senate and within the biden administration declines to pay it, they've basically made clear we're shutting the government down. and people will be hurt. and it's irresponsible but it's in their d.n.a. house democrats met earlier today and we are unified in the position that we support the continuing resolution that is working its way through the senate and prepared, ready, willing, and abl

to pass a republican agenda.e that does that. and i turned to mitch mcconnell and that leadership election i said let me ask a very simple question. what are you willing to fight on question is there one thing stand up and tell us one thing. i think we ought to fight on what a lot of things but is there one? he would not answer that question. there's a reason we don't fight out a thin because our leadership does not want to fight on anything. we have that boat i needed 25 votes to prevail. i got 16 so we were nine short. but i will say there's a growing group in the senate that are frustrated that are conservative but they are just tired of republicans rubberstamping bankrupting this country. sadly we've seen far too much of that. mark: at this point cruz i don't even know it senate republicans stand for. i do not even know if they are running on and reelection cycle. but i do know this, every time they lose one of the seats they blamed the base and 2010 they blame the tea party. which delivered to them a super m

what's the house republican agenda? the extreme maga republican agenda? shut down the government, crash the economy, illegitimately impeach president joe biden. and jam their right-wing ideology down the throats of the american people including marching america toward a nationwide abortion ban. questions? reporter: talk more concretely about deems strategy on this impeachment strategy, is it trying to block their records requests? and do you think hunter biden's conduct is defensible? mr. jeffries: the hunter biden matter is pending before a court. it's ongoing litigation. there's nothing further for me to add to that case. with respect to president biden there is no evidence, not a shred of evidence that president biden engaged in wrongdoing. there's not a shred of evidence that president biden committed an impeachable offense. there's not a shred of evidence that president biden broke the law. illegitimate impeachment inquiry is a partisan political stunt. period, full stop. why are we dealing with it? because donald trump ordered the supreme, the extre

the republican party. he's the guy in charge. republican front runner, the guy leading in the polls, and a criminal defendant donald trump. guess what? he had some thoughts. about the shutdown. the ex president posted this last night. quote, a very important event is approaching at the end of the month. republicans and congress can and must defund all aspects of crooked joe biden's weaponized government. this is also the last chance to different these political prosecutions against me. use the power of the purse and defend the country. and his foot soldiers and congress have heeded the call. far-right maga congressman matt gaetz of florida wrote last night, quote, trump opposes a continuing resolution. hold the line. two of trump's most ardent presenters have said they will not find the government if a scent goes to special counsel jack smith. >> the dotted c r is a permission slip project smith to continue his election interference as a trying to gag the president, the former president of the island state

there were some republicans or republican-leaning vote here's voted for biden in 2020.re the people he's trying to hang on to and convince to stay with him. those people, i imagine they're seeing in their research are really disillusioned with biden and his job performance. specifically on the economy. this is the strategic issue for biden. focus people in on democracy to a lesser extent for the republican audience, maybe abortion. and get them to think less about the economy and the speech is for them. >> we were talking about it yesterday. one of the republicans, cassidy hutchinson, former super loyal trump aide with him through the end. a book out walled "enough." trump is unfit for office warning the country how donald trump pose as threat to democracy, wants to vote republican. she's looking for a republican candidate. not trump. i think in many ways she is who joe biden is speaking to today. >> absolutely. on the macro level, arizona is a battleground state trending more blue because of the grass roots organizing. >> barely. >> barely, but in 2022 the democratic,

but what we've seen time and time again is not just house republicans but republican state legislatures have sought to reduce opportunities for people to exercise their franchise and vote. i saw it on on the subcommittee with mr. fudge and g.k. butterfield time and time again. we did field hearings and went around the country and talked to voters and talked to local election officials. the importance of the john lewis voting act, the importance of what he fought for and the fact that we have his name on it, it's not lost on any members of the democratic caucus how important that right is and how sadly we still need to fight for it. i look forward to it and hope you'll join us at the press conference later today but it's an important part of who we are on the democratic caucus platform and it's important and terri sewell has done an amazing job leading house democrats to ensure we honor john lewis and keep talking about the importance of voting rights which we need to do a lot of and need to draw more attention to the people who want to reduce access to the polls. susan? mr. delbene: abs

-- republican dynamic. when they passed the funding levels or caps during the debt limit situation, mccarthy came back and said those are taxed. we can go lower than that and that is what house republicans are trying to do an appropriations bill is go lower than the cap they set during the debt limit fight and federal republicans are taking a different tact, saying those are the caps and we will go up to them and there is not the same desire for severe spending cuts in the senate republican conference as we see in the house republicans conference. host: two things before continuing on calls unrelated to deadlines, how do senate republicans feel about minority leader mitch mcconnell's health? guest: this is something i was working on yesterday when the senate came back from recess asking republican senators about this, by and large it needs to be said the senate republican conference stands by mcconnell including his top leadership, allies who would be in line to replace him should he leave the senate, john

republican line. >> so good morning. this is a privilege to be able to get through. i'm a disabled vietnam veteran and i follow the washington journal quite regularly. from the standpoint of the clash between republicans and democrats, i am a republican. i see that we are running and have been running a one-sided type of program against the republicans. and also that we have a justice system that is supposed to be equal justice under law but in fact it is not. i repeat it is not. >> are you commenting on the impeachment side the potential met potential impeachment? what would you tell congress? >> as far as the impeachment i would say that congress should in fact follow through and impeach president biden. and i believe this way he will come out of his come out of his -- >> why do you think an inquiry should be launched in the first place? >> i think an inquiry should be run because he has he virtually does whatever he wants to do. the american people are suffering. our border our southern border is a

a lot of house republican caucus. the only people not honoring this deal are a handful of extreme right wing maga republicans that's going to send our country into a totally unnecessary government shutdown. we are just asking kevin mccarthy to stand up, rebuild its integrity and honor his word. lisa, last question? [inaudible] the question to you is. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i think we should focus all of our effort to avoid a shutdown. that is what we are focused on. but, as we get closer to a republican led we are going to have to answer those questions. the house majority some republicans of the house to the administration committee will issue guidance to employees and members. state may do that today but they may do that tomorrow but sometime in the near future that will come. as soon we have that guidance i think we will all be free to give our opinions on this. my preference there was a pay our military act that was passed into law the 2013 shutdown you only had a partial shutdown in 1819 as you recall. but my

house democrats, house republicans, senate democrats, senate republicans and president biden. so -- so why have we spent the last several weeks here in the house of representatives trying to break that agreement and threaten a reckless government shutdown? which by the way will have catastrophic consequences for the american people. we want the american people to know that we are going to do everything possible to stop extreme maga republicans from shutting down the government. we are fighting on their behalf to put people over politics. that's why we're here. that's why we're making this fight. and we want to do it in a bipartisan way. so we're in the process of evaluating the legislation that was dropped on the american people at the 11th hour. and once we conclude that expeditious review of the four corners of the legislation, we can make a decision as to the best path forward. when we have said all week that the only path forward is a bipartisan one, a bipartisan bill working its way through the senate right now. senate democrats and senate republicans coming together to m

dave on our republican line from texas. caller: i was calling about our southern border, and the only reason that i could see joe biden would turn such a blind eye to the southern border is the fact that the cartel has paid hunter biden some amount of money for him to look the other way. host: how do you make that connection? caller: can you tell me a reason why he would turn a blind eye to the open border like this? host: because you associated with hunter biden, i am curious how you made the connection. caller: the same reason china does not get any flak. host: ok. dave in texas finishing off this open forum. thanks to all of you who participated. and that is it for the program today. an >> "washington journal" continues. host: a lot going on in washington this week. joining us is katherine tully-mcmanus. she is there congress reporter. we will talk about those in bit. thanks for joining us again. walk us through what to ask back during the week --walk us through what to ask during this week. >> the observance of the jewi

he is trying to make this distinction between republicans and what he calls maga republicans. the question always is does that distinction really exist in anyone's minds but in the minds of the people crafting this message in the white house? >> that is a better question for amanda because amanda is a republican but not a maga republican. >> but from a messaging perspective. >> this isn't about messaging with him. this is about genuinely being scared. he has said today, he has said previously and hopefully will say it over and over again this is a central part of his presidency is to fight this back. whether i use the term maga extremist i don't know but, yes. he wants to make the point that the bulk of the republican party you can disagree with but they are thoughtful. they are patriots. they are not out to undermine democracy for the sake of their god donald trump. and you have to be able to find a way to bifurcate that group from the people who are running up the steps of the capitol with, you know, sticks and breaking in and making havoc and the people who cheer them on an

we didn't have the kind of chaos that we see when maga republicans seem to control so much of the republican agenda. and this year we have already seen both, a debt limit crisis and a looming shutdown crisis just months apart. only one thing has changed since last year where there was none of this chaos -- a house controlled by maga republicans. they're back to their old ways. of course, former president trump is trying to add to the crisis. it's typical of what he always does. practically commanding his maga house sycophants to, quote, shut down the government if they can't make an appropriate deal, absolutely. this is the problem with maga extremism it's not capable of governing, but only of chaos. this year, sadly, chaos has reigned in the house. it doesn't have to be that way. it doesn't have to be a maga republican only bill. it doesn't have to be the maga way or a shutdown. house republicans have a choice in the matter, between pursuing real chances for bipartisanship and catering to the hard right. each time they have chosen to empower the hard right. they've chosen dysfunction and ch

look, we know from history that the republicans in the last race, most recent shut down the republican party, has suffered in public opinion and electrolyte because of their tendency to try to take us to the wire and, and the costs are shut down. but there's something else happening to usually political parties have a sort of clear idea of what success means a success means which in the, in the general election, there is a, a piece of this republican party that insists on recruiting far right candidates. and what we saw on the 2022 election was that the, the trump want to be the far right candidates. guess what? they lost in the general election. and so far in 2023, when we looked at special elections at the state legislative level are, you know, lowered down that don't get that much national attention. guess what the same thing is happening. so there will come a point when this, the behavior of the freedom clock, guess what, they're do, what they're imposing on the republican party. when people say this is too costly to us. and somehow people are going to have to confront the fact tha

with the soft house republicans in the sense that house republicans are demanding some very partisanspects in return for the roach are continuing resolution which would really only be to extend the deadline from the end of september until the middle of november were not looking to attack a full yet some are punting a little bit. some house republicans upset if i want to vote a continuing resolution i need it impeachment inquiry against president joe biden or i need defendant in the jack smith special counsel things that will not happen, no way. we are looking at a big difference they said an intro they are more unified. bunch of house republicans who said a government shutdown that's okay with me if anything the programs are funded. >> outcomes of that shut down being okay, to either speaker mccarthy or minority leader mcconnell buy into that? >> to fight not mcconnell and say definitely not speaker mccarthy i think it mccarthy wants to govern he was to show the country house republicans only have a narrow majority they can lead the country they can govern he does own a shut down man

my grandmother, who i named was a republican. she died a republican. not my grandmother's republican party. host: richard in philadelphia. independent. caller: i wanted to make a few statements as far as the reckless spending that they keep talking about. as far as the border, the more coming across the border, the more welfare has to be put out. they're letting the irs in the epa spend trillions of dollars on ammunitions and advanced warfare's. they do need to tax the rich like i was speaking of a minute ago. they are constantly funding these extreme expirations of deep-sea explorations and things to worry about. we need to worry about what is on land right now before worrying about everything else. caller: other than native americans, all of us are immigrants. we need an immigration system that works. the congressional research services, all of them have said that fixing immigration will bully our economy. we do need more workers. we do not need criminals coming across the border. for sure. this country, i know i am an immigrant. i got here on a slav

jeffries: maga republicans have created a piece of theater. there's not a shred of evidence that president joe biden has engaged in wrongdoing. there's not a shred of evidence that joe biden has committed an impeachable offense. there's not a shred of evidence that president biden has committed a crime. this is an illegitimate impeachment inquiry. period. full stop. it's a waste of time and taxpayer dollars. extreme maga republicans have no economic agenda. they have no housing agenda. they have no health care agenda. they have no education agenda. they have no public safety agenda. they have no agenda designed to address the needs of the american people. we were sent to washington, d.c. to improve the quality of life of everyday americans. the extreme maga republicans are determined to illegitimately investigate the president. as part of an ideological crusade that week after week after week continues to do nothing more than try to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the american people. president joe biden is a good man

and, a total defeat for the extreme maga republicans. let me also thank publicly leader schumer and the senate democrats. because, part of the reason why we had this space to get to a place where we reached a bipartisan agreement in the house is because leader schumer and senate democrats have been working in a cooperative end bipartisan way for weeks in the senate. sitting forth the only path forward. as a result of that, you had house democrats in alignment with senate democrats. both of us were in alignment with senate republicans. both of us were in alignment with president biden. on behalf of the american people. you had the extreme maga republicans on an island all by themselves. as recently as yesterday, they put forth a draconian bill that would have slashed and burned the ability of the federal government to meet the health, safety, and economic needs of the american people. but, largely, as a result of our unity within the house democratic caucus in fighting for everyday americans and putting people over politics, and, because

republicans 202-748-8001. you can comment on the potential shutdown or the potential that impeachment inquiry by the house into president biden. some of the responding on the facebook page saying wire republicans always threatening to shut down the government. the impeachment is an utter waste of time. saying you have to have priorities. it looks at a perfect time to cut the budget in order to get the debt under control. doreen saying congress do your job. joe biden has failed this country and so many ways. the entire afghanistan debacle itself is enough to impeach the man. allies handing -- impeach the man and put him in jail. this is brian from facebook saying a shutdown. i dare you adding the president biden will not be impeached. they sold themselves to a con man who was impeached. america will outlast the foolishness. you can call us if you wish as well. the number will be on the screen. this is alex, your message to congress on a potential shutdown or impeachment inquiry. good morning, go ahead. >> this

a republican time for choosing. will we embrace the traditional conservative agenda that's led our party and our nation to victory and prosperity now for more than half a century or will we choose to go down the path of populism and decline. in the book of jeremiah agreeds quote stand at the crossroads and look ask for the ancient paths ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls. men and women of new hampshire i believe we stand at a crossroads not only in the life of our nation but in the life of the republican party. but i have faith i have faith that republican voters will once again choose the good way the way of conservative values and limited government that americans have fought for and defended throughout our history. i believe we will remain the conservative party but it falls to all of you in this first in the nation state to see to it. but i'm confident if we renew our faith in our first principles renew our faith in each other and keep faith in the author and finisher

in other words, it would align most of the house republicans with the senate republicans, the senate democrats, all of the house democrats and the president of the united states, but he won't do it because they are threatening to, quote, vacate the chair, which means to topple kevin mccarthy. so it means more to him to stay into office then to keep the united states going. if i were kevin mccarthy, if he is watching msnbc right now, go ahead and do the right thing, put it on the floor, let us all vote on it, and if they tried to topple your speakership, see who they got against you. see who they put up against you. i don't think that matt gaetz could beat him, george santos could not beat him, i don't know. >> all the bluff, right. just to be clear, there is already a continuing resolution that keeps the government funding, has aid for ukraine and disaster relief, has bipartisan support of the senate, that language exists. bring it over from one side of the capitol to the other, call a vote on it for florida, pass with 350 votes, probably, somewhere in the -- maybe even 400, and then

some of the house republicans do. this reckless cr would lower public safety, cut back on drug and food inspection, weaken or wildfire prevention eliminate law enforcement officers. weakening our battle against a violent crime in the scorch of fentanyl, who wants to do that? some people in the house the maga republicans in the house. this cruel cr would got investments k-12 education. /resources for suicide support services up in tribal investments cut loans to small businesses enter rural communities were so much need them this is not rhetoric. here are the facts about how the cr cuts would have real impact. k-12 100 10,000 children will lose access to headstart. social security people applying for disability benefits would wait two months longer law enforcement and police 4000 fewer fbi personnel. including agents to investigate crime. 800 fewer custom border protection agents and officers. nutrition assistance hungry family and children 60000 seniors would be robbed of meals on wheels. 2.1 infants and children woul

i'm just talking about republicans. >> can any republican get that kind of respect or consensus, givena," and "b," the four-seat majority. zl here's what we have with such a slim majority in the house. we need more people like the problem soflvers and not the flame throwers. and speaking with the rational republicans we have in the house, many of them support the work that mccarthy is doing, saying he is putting forth ideas and putting forth reasonable conservative policies that can actually get things done, but running into a brick wall. mccarthy has the support of rank and file. and we have people like matt gaetz who are the rowdy and feckless wing of the republican party. and they're not able to get anything done. and what he is doing is he is getting further and further away from finding a consensus and we're going to lead to a shutdown and it's taking away from the biden administration policies and it's taking away from the open border and it's taking away from issues that republicans should be talking about. >> so to be clear, i will never argue with you about mattgate being a fl

the republicans have to fix their house. good for kevin mccarthy for reaching out, but i recognize the only way things get done is when the center holds. full stop. >> yeah. no question. and margaret, let me ask you this, because there are a lot of democrats who were upset about the exclusion for funding for ukraine in this continuing resolution. democrats seem to be saying, well, we have assurances and the white house says we have assurances this is going to happen sometime before the end of the year and so on, but really? can you really be sure of that? i mean, mike quigley, the democratic congressman from illinois earlier today was calling this a win for putin. not a good look. >> it's not a good look, and it looks like the senate's going to have a difficult time with the ukraine funding, as well. so, it's -- it isn't a good look for democracy or for the west remaining united against putin. it's a bad day when it comes to u.s. is up port for ukraine for sure. >> and i think liz cheney made a great comment, noting it's the

this is about political dis, function. republicans willing to compromise against republican republicans, right wing republicans refusing to bend on anything. and this is also about numbers . a republican supported bill in the house of representatives would most likely not survive in a senate dominated by democrats and republicans want more funding to protect and control the us border with mexico. they accuse president biden and the democrats of ignoring wave after wave of migrants entering the country at the same time, republicans are pointing to the $100000000000.00 given to ukraine. since the russian invasion, accusing the winehouse of giving ukraine a blank check to write in spend as it pleases well to night, it looks like no one will be writing any checks any time. soon. divisions between house republicans and democrats on spending costs a to ukraine and border protection are hindering efforts to get even a temporary funding solution off the ground. and the country's most prominent republican is urging his colleagues to let the shut down happen until congress approves a new funding.

republican caucus meeting. saying to the clowns, hey, if you guys want to shut down the government, so you can raise more money on social media. that's what this is about. they don't give a damn if they have a majority next year or not. in fact, if they don't have a majority, they can be even crazier on social media, even crazier on the house floor and raise more money. you look at the craziest people in the house republican caucus that are destroying their chances of a majority right now, they're the people who make more money in the minority because they can say crazier things on the house floor and on social media. that's all this is about. gesturing for money. >> yep. it's predictable republican hypocrisy when it comes to spending and the note. we should note 8.2 trillion there for donald trump and only a portion of that is pandemic spending and president biden, even factoring the pandemic spending of his administration well behind trump's pace. and this, of course, was a deal on expanding the debt ceiling

and when republicans are asked about it, they dance around the question. so what's the origin story of today's announcement january 3 when the they dangled the speakership in front of kevin mccarthy and he pushed us to the edge of economic disaster with the manufactured default crisis. when we came together in an agreement to save our economy before the ink was even dry, mccarthy once again suck coupled to pressure and then he sent us home to six weeks having passed one of 12 appropriation bills. and here we are just days ago, he is not holding a vote. but the leaders of the maga republican conference are not here to serve the american people or improve their lives or brighten their future. there is no agenda except chai os and agenda. but whatever distractions they manufacture, democrats are here to do our jobs. we are here to grow the economy by growing the middle class. and that's what we'll continue to do. i now yield to our incredible caucus chair, pete ag did you lar. -- aguilar. mr. aguilar: nine months later, chaos, disfunction and confusion when w

republican line. caller: yeah, i think the reason we are having this discussion at all is because of the 2020 election. it never really was trashed out in the courts. i remember rudy giuliani when he was on the case before he was taken off of it. he had over 1000 affidavits from coworkers, republicans and democrats that sell all sorts of irregularities, and they were never allowed to be heard, such as the truck driver who publicly came out and said he drove a truck load of ballots in the middle of the night that night from new york to lancaster, pennsylvania, and there was a wonderfully researched book called "rigged," which documented thousands of footnotes about the irregularities of the election, and there was a wonderful film where they used pings off of cell phones, the same used to locate missing persons, of people going back and forth in private homes to drop boxes, dozens and dozens of times of mailboxes. the gateway does wonderful reporting, and i see many of the films they have on cameras on

the republican majority ran on fiscal responsibility.rican people elected us to implement those policies. this is our opportunity to meet the moment, to rise to the occasion, to hold the white house accountable. republicans are united in doing that. >> we are talking past each other on the budget numbers. we will not agree on that. let me ask you about the fact that with 48 hours to go, how can you justify the impeachment, the time being spent on this, by members who could otherwise be devoting their time to coming up with a solution here? >> simple. the president should be impeached on the border invasion in addition to the biden crime family, the evidence that's being confirmed and verified, investigated. the oversight committee doesn't work on the appropriations process or the budget. i serve on the budget committee and the leadership team for the house freedom caucus. i'm focused on the budget battle. i don't have responsibility with the impeachment. we have dozens of committees. we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we owe it t

the republicans also have 49 people. it's unclear if the presidential candidates, maybe senator tim scott is in iowa or new hampshire this weekend, campaigning, that's what you are looking at this weekend right now is a pretty even senate. you are going to need at least 11 republicans to join democrats if they want to advance this bill. >> holy, smokes just as a general mask matter, if -- what say they do a vote, by some miracle and rolls they were able to then -- clears a threshold but now it's a simple majority vote. if it's a 49 to 49, under senate rules or what happens? >> the vice president can break that, ty as you mentioned to me before, vice president harris might be changed to washington for the foreseeable future as long as some senators are out with, covid or there is no replacement yet for senator feinstein. >> that was the thing that i thought of after expressing my condolences about to the passing of senator feinstein, and reading the stories seeing that the majority, slips back from 51 to 50, the immediate

new republican party, democracy, and an attack on democracy.ught is as you're watching this split screen right now >> well, first john mccain could come close to winning a republican primary today. if he were to exist today, if he were alive, he would have to run as an independent or even maybe a democrat because that's actually the republican party todayly wanted nothing to do wi john mccain while he was alive, and donald trump certainly did notld like and constantly criticized john mccain in this. i think it's a very smart move on the president. i think it's a realization, i always thought they would come to this over the course of the 2024 campaign. i think they wanted to try to make this a referendum on bidenomics and biden policies. i think they have realized in my view that that's not going to get them over the finish line and win o the race, they have t make this about a big issue like democracy. i hope if he does this, the most effective way to do this is not only to talk about democracy but wrap freedoms and liberty, including economic

a republican extreme republican shutdown. our speaker has broken -- let me step back, for more on how the speaker has broken his words and impact of the devastating cuts, we have our o.m.b. director young to talk us through this. >> who thought i would be back here so soon? i certainly had hoped i would not. it has been four months since president biden, house republicans, house democrats, senate republicans and senate democrats made a budget deal. you were there. i was there. you remember what it took to get to that deal. we shook hands, 2/3 of congress voted for it and the president signed it into law, a commitment to the american people that reduced the deficit, protected critical programs and ensured that their government remained open. today, four of those five are sticking by that deal. the one side, house republicans are refusing to live up to their end of the bargain and turned their back on the deal. they are on an island by their own making. their chaos is now threatening to push us into a shutdown. this is not only

i don't know if they will have any money to support republican candidates, republican efforts, in theirnow, the chaos within the georgia gop, can't just be blamed. i know i keep saying this, but it can't just be blamed on donald trump. he didn't hold a gun to the heads of those fake electors, he wasn't down there in person, pushing them to make the claims that they did, and if you take the actions that they did. that, the party chair in georgia, i would say carries a tremendous amount of responsibility, for all of the chaos that they are facing right now. and, we shouldn't expect to see georgia go republican next year, in my opinion. >> greg, i mean, is there any work being done to repair this gop divide, or is it just growing by the day, at this point? >> i mean, it's there. it's a deep chasm. there is a new georgia gop chairman -- a former state senator. he was the handpicked endorsed candidate for david schaffer, the former gop chair. but, he is trying to sort of revamp of the party, and filled deeper ties with activists. but look, the republican establishment, the mainstream republi

that's what republicans have been doing.nt to push this extreme nationwide abortion man. 80% of the american people do not want that, including 65% of republicans. they are in a tough spot. they're trying to push something very extreme that cared is to the extreme right of their party. not even republicans want that. you can see that with donald trump. he's trying to do the thing he always does. it's a lie. say things that simply aren't true. he himself acknowledged that they are not going to win on this issue. at the very. beginning believe it or not, jen, i agree with donald trump. republicans will not win on this issue. the progressive caucus, you're back in washington. we all know a shutdown is looming. matt gaetz threatens every day to bring a motion to vacate and remove speaker kevin mccarthy. we have heard f bombs being dropped. what do you say about what's happening right now with your republican colleagues and the inability to make governments function. >> they can't govern. it's that, i don't take it a joy from the