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The Fox News Rundown

Can Congress Avoid A Shutdown?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With the end of the fiscal year coming this Saturday lawmakers must work on a funding extension or risk a government shutdown. GOP leadership in the House is hoping to pass bills that would put them in a better negotiating position with a Democrat-controlled Senate without angering the right flank of the party. Key issues such as funding for the War in Ukraine as well as the border crisis headlining the negotiations. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) is the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee. Sen. Wicker joins Mike Emanuel on the FOX News Rundown to discuss the negotiations, the border, the War in Ukraine and more. Illinois has become the first state to eliminate cash bail with the "Pretrial Fairness Act," after lawmakers in the state criticized the current system for disproportionately affecting minorities and those not wealthy enough to afford bail. With cashless bail, prosecutors now have to request detentions, and judges must use their discretion to jail people awaiting trial to keep violent criminals off the street. However, critics of the law say posting bail is an incentive for people to show up for their court dates. Former DC Police Detective, defense attorney, and FOX News Contributor Ted Williams joins the Rundown to explain why he breaks down the debate over cashless bail and fears that this amended justice system could favor criminals over law-abiding citizens. Plus, commentary from FOX News Medical Contributor and Professor at New York University Langone Health, Dr. Marc Siegel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Janice Dean, I'm Jason Chafetz, I'm Harris Faulkner, and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:09.2

Monday, September 25th, 2023, I'm like a manual. This is the week. Congress must pass a government

0:16.7

funding extension by Saturday or risk a government shutdown. But key Republicans are warning a shutdown

0:24.9

would be a political loser or the GOP. The speakers correct. We would be blamed because of that

0:31.5

handful of members of our own party that seem to be determined, as Kevin McCarthy says, simply to

0:39.5

burn the building down and create havoc. Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker is the top

0:45.2

Republican on the Armed Services Committee. Unleash of Brady, Illinois makes history by abolishing

0:52.6

cash bail, but that doesn't end the debate. Folks looking at it around the country realize that

0:59.2

what happens is you have more criminals put out there on the street. And I'm Dr. Mark Siegel.

1:06.0

I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.

1:13.3

It is crunch time for Congress as the end of the fiscal year is this coming Saturday.

1:18.9

Lawmakers must work out an extension or risk a government shutdown. Ohio Republican Congressman

1:25.9

Jim Jordan says he favors a 30-day extension to buy more time. But Jordan is one of a growing number

1:32.8

of lawmakers asking questions about sending more money to fund the war in Ukraine.

1:39.5

No one can ever answer the fundamental question. What is the goal? What is the objective from

1:45.8

is it to get Russia out of the Eastern Ukraine? Is it to get them all the way out of Crimea,

1:49.7

which they've had since 2014? They took when President Obama was with their administration?

1:54.8

Yeah. What is the objective? And that's after Ukraine's president,

1:58.2

Volodymyr Zelensky, made the rounds on Capitol Hill last week.

2:03.3

Meantime, the crisis at the southern border has hit record levels in terms of migrants pouring

2:08.8

across the border. Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Koyar says it's time to step up enforcement.

2:17.2

We need to stop playing defense. You can send more national guard. You can send more active members.

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