Agencies ramp up shutdown prep as deadline looms

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

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The House votes on four spending bills tonight, with the last one expected to fail by a large margin in another example of the dysfunction pushing the country closer to a government shutdown Saturday at midnight, after which: 4 million federal employees, more than 1 million active duty troops, and tens of thousands of air traffic controllers could be forced to work without pay. That, as the GOP holds an inquiry into the impeachment of Joe Biden, with one of the witnesses called directly undercutting the narrative by admitting there is no evidence the President has committed any impeachable offenses. Also tonight, Biden warns of threats to democracy in an Arizona speech, and Trump passes on moving his Georgia election subversion trial to a federal court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening everyone, I'm Pam LaBrown, votes going on at the moment.
0:10.4	On Capitol Hill, right now you're looking live at the House floor where members are voting
0:15.0	on appropriation bills the last one expected to fail and it's just another example of
0:20.7	the dysfunction pushing this country that much closer to a government shutdown Saturday
0:25.5	at midnight.
0:26.5	I'd admit this parade of dysfunction, it's real Americans who will be paying the price
0:31.3	while the elected representatives who are supposed to be working for you, they aren't doing
0:35.9	that.
0:36.9	If there is a shutdown, 4 million federal employees and more than 1 million active duty
0:41.3	troops won't get paid until it's over and there could be massive disruption to air
0:46.4	travel as tens of thousands of air traffic controllers would be forced to work without
0:51.0	pay.
0:52.0	Talk about a waste of time, what were House Republicans doing today when they could have
0:57.0	been trying to resolve all of this.
0:59.3	They held the first hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and one of
1:03.5	the witnesses called directly undercut the GOP narrative by admitting there is no evidence
1:09.2	yet that President Biden has committed impeachable offenses.
1:13.7	Let's go right to CNN's Melonies, Zunona on Capitol Hill for us today, so Melonies bring
1:18.0	us up to speed.
1:19.0	House Republicans are in turmoil, what is happening on the floor right now.
1:23.7	Yes, so House Republicans right now as we speak are voting on a package of four different
1:28.0	long-term spending bills.
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