This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, December 21st. I'm Daniel Davis.

And I'm Kate Drinko. Today we're going to be featuring our problematic women, Lauren Evans, Bree,

Paiden, and Jenny Montebano, discussing a host of topics, but first we wanted to let you know that

this will be our last episode for a while. The Daily Signal will be on hiatus over the

holidays and returning January 3rd. We hope you and your families have a Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year. And now we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

Well the shutdown talks continue. As of this recording, the House is trying to figure out how to add border security to the spending bill.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy addressed reporters outside the White House Thursday afternoon

after speaking to President Trump who was apparently no fan of the Senate's proposed

continuing resolution bill which would have essentially put off the spending fight until February.

We just had a very long productive meeting with the President.

The President informed us that he will not sign the bill that came up from the Senate last evening

because of his legitimate

concerns for border secure. So what we're going to do is go back to the House and

work with our members. We want to keep the government open, but we also want to

see an agreement that protects the border.

We have very serious concerns about securing our border.

So the president said he will not sign this bill.

So we're going to go back and work on adding border security to this also keeping the government open

because we do want to see an agreement.

With that alternative, majority leader current.

We believe there's still time we can have border security.

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