bring in wall street pro, carol roth coming in to talk to us.ing is the length of this interim spending bill was 118 pages long. that's about a tenth of -- less than a tenth of the first interim bill when it was loaded with all the pork and government overspending that got everybody in an uproar, karol. now democrats are saying, yes, to a slimmer bill of 118 pages. what was the big deal about the first go round? >> i dent know, it sounds like they got some ozempic, liz, for the bill that they were magically able to lose over 1,000 pages in just one night. that's incredible. it just goes to show you that if people use their voices and push back, which really is what x has enabled and elon musk enabled with free speech, it wasn't about him. it's about the people saying this is ridiculous. nobody can digest a 1500+ page bill in 24 hours and vote on it. this is not what the people voted for. we want change. we want more responsibility and with 116 or 18 pages or whatever it is, it's still too many. i would have preferred to see the single issue bill

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final thoughts, carol roth. >> so i would say with all we've been talking about, the drones, the sellingugh, maria with. i'll leave are it there. maria: great point. caroline. >> i totally agree. between sabotaging the construction, setting the clemency pardoning record, first off letting his son off the hook for a crime that was real, bind's not salvaging his legacy. maria: wait until we get the pardon for his brother, jim. cheryl casone. >> i can't wait for that to pass. i tell you that -- what, there's regulation, and there's smart regulation. i can't wait to see what doge does with the epa, maria. maria: that'll be lee zeldin running things. thank you so much, guys. have a great weekend. "varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. todaying up -- tying up loose ends, the president-elect wants to hit the ground running. he's agreed he

also with me is carole roth. dennis, good to see you. ning the conversation. >> thanks for having me on. maria: all right. carole, want to kick things off with you with the wall street journal writing about president trump's transition team, looking for pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate the government. this cuts could include eliminating the fdic, the cftc. i've been reporting about the plans to consider for paul atkins, the incoming securities and exchange commission chairman perhaps if he would get behind an idea to merge the securities and exchange commission with the cftc. put the cftc within the s.e.c., advisors have also asked fdic nominees in the office of the comptroller of the currency if deposit insurance could be absorbed into the treasury department. they're talking about putting the fdic under treasury, perhaps putting the cftc under the s.e.c., your reaxe to the consolidation and the ideas of merging government agencies as a way to save money. >> well, certainly i think some could be thrown out all together. you m

composite done better than to present, the hang seng to present as well joining the conversation and carol roth national review staff writer caroline downey and fox business cheryl casone. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪. maria: president trump expressing support for u.s. dockworkers ahead of a potential strike next month. cheryl casone with the latest. >> were tracking this for you growing concern that the east and gulf coast dockworkers can go on strike january 155 days before president-elect trump is inaugurated that's when the current labor contract ends. they walked off the job for three days in october they shut their major printed new york, new jersey, texas until the body administration intervene they were offered a 62% pay increase over six years but that was content on a wider deal being reached by mid-january, the sites are stuck on the issue of automation the ports are growing volume of cargo the union opposes the use of technology but they say it threatens jobs. yesterday president-elect trump met with union leaders for an hr meeting after the meeting trump posted this u