00:00Do we expect to see voting tonight in the Senate? How quick can John Thune get this done?
00:04So he needs consent from all 100 senators to move this along.
00:09We're expecting some folks, including Senator Rand Paul, who typically holds these things up to do just that,
00:15which would then essentially put the brakes on.
00:18They have to ride out a clock, take another procedural vote, ride out the clock again.
00:22So it could be days instead of hours. But this morning, Senator Thune was saying he's hoping it's the hours, measured in hours, not in days.
00:31Have we heard from the White House on where they stand on this plan?
00:35Because while it would include the stopgap measure, reopen the government, as Joe mentioned, to January 30th,
00:40it also appears to have this pullback when it comes to the firing of federal workers,
00:45which, of course, is a policy that this White House really championed.
00:48Yeah, so we have not heard anything as of yet from the president himself.
00:52We are hearing rumblings from the White House that he is on board with this.
00:57Senator Thune said that the compromise had been floated with President Trump last night
01:02and that he expects Trump to sign it if and when it eventually makes it to his desk.
01:08What's it like in the leadership offices right now, for Democrats, that is, because these eight senators broke ranks, right?
01:14Chuck Schumer was still a no, and Hakeem Jeffries just made it pretty clear that he's going to stay a no.
01:18They don't like what's going on here, but they've not managed to keep everybody from voting a certain way.
01:23There you have on your screen on Bloomberg TV the eight, including Dick Durbin, by the way, in the leadership,
01:29who decided to just say, yeah, let's get this done.
01:34What does this mean for Chuck Schumer now to lose eight votes like this?
01:39A lot of folks are calling for him to step down.
01:42We hear this type of thing when voting doesn't go a certain way.
01:46But how confused is this in the leadership office?
01:49So I think that it's telling, you know, Tyler said it at the top of the hour that none of these eight are up for re-election next November.
01:57That is key here.
01:58And to me, indicates that there was some game of chess being played as to who was going to step up
02:04and kind of hold their nose and vote for this.
02:07Senator Durbin, as you mentioned, is a member of leadership.
02:11He is not one you would typically see voting with Republicans on an issue.
02:16He is, however, an appropriator.
02:18And most importantly, he is retiring.
02:21So that makes him a safe vote.
02:24I think that there was that was all built into the calculus here.
02:27Of course, Schumer got blasted just months ago when he acquiesced to Republicans and kept the government open back in March amid concerns that Trump was too powerful and too popular at that moment.
02:40This, though, has been going on for some 41 days.
02:43And the calculus is changing, particularly as people go without their food benefits.
02:48So that's the Senate.
02:49What are you watching for when this gets over to the House, not just on the Democratic side, but also I'm wondering about House conservatives that weren't able to negotiate some of these spending levels and the bills that are tied to this?
03:00So things like the rifts, the fired federal workers that you mentioned, some of the spending aspects of this could really cause some consternation, particularly with members of the House Freedom Caucus.
03:13We're seeing some tepid support, but that's far from certain at this point.
03:19The House leader, the House majority, the Republican majority is so narrow that they can only really afford to lose two or three votes and still get this through if Democrats remain united in opposition.
03:33What I'll be curious to see is if they lose some Republican votes if they pick up moderate Democrats.
03:39Now, Democrats should be having an additional vote when this finally comes up, because the the representative elect Gray Alva from Arizona, who has long been awaiting her swearing in, will likely be sworn in prior to this vote.
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