Can Congress Avoid A Shutdown?
The Fox News Rundown
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3.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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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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