nebraska republican senator ben sasse called it rotten to the core. mr. trump leaves behind a capital in chaos after posting a video calling for bigger stimulus checks. the president formally vetoed the military budget for the coming year. override a trump veto for the first time next week. >> we'll move to override that and we're going to, you know, attempt to get legislation out of the house that we provide the $2,000 and we don't know what the republicans are going to do. >> reporter: republicans have signaled they will kill a democratic attempt in the house today to raise stimulus checks to $2,000. putting them at odds with the president and leaving struggling businesses and iworkers like ths bartender in limoblimbo. >> i do feel scared. >> without the president's signature on a spending bill, the federal government will shut down on monday. in washington, chris pollone, nbc news. >>> it is 5:05 right now. here is a live look outside in fremont. some people already up and at emon this christmas eve. very cold out there, marcus. i could not get my heat

mr. attorney general, that brings me to my question for you. what's in your view the motivation for this lawsuit because i mean, ben sasse suggested well, it's becausents a pardon from donald trump and that's why all of these state attorneys general have been willing to jump on board. i know you have talked to them privately i know you have relationships even if it's across the aisle. what are you hearing from people not ken paxton about why they're willing to put their names on something like this? >> i think the poll says it, the folks are concerned about bucking a president. as you correctly noted, president trump has a death grip on the republican party. and death grips don't end well. the republican party is not going to be the same and that's a bad thing. let me give you a good story. that this is. the federal courts and the state courts and i believe the united states supreme court has stood up to this president. my colleagues in the democratic ag room have brought suit against the president about 139 times. we have won 80% of those suits. willie, that's a better winning percentage than the yankees. even better, joe, than the red sox. >> wow.

mr. sasse: mr. president. the presiding officer: the distinguished senator from nebraska is recognized. mr. sasse: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sasse: mr. president, i rise because in a few minutes, i'm going to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a new report released last night by adrian zens of the victims of communism foundation. now, it isn't often that we enter into the report, into the "congressional record" reports that are really things that we want our constituents to read, but this report is different. this report is a report that every american needs to know about because it makes clear two things. first, it makes clear that cotton from xinjiang, which is about 20% of all the world's cotton, it's about 85% of the cotton coming out of china, but it's about 20% of the global cotton and it's the best cotton on the globe -- is stained by slave labor. and the second thing that it makes cl