Shifting our focus now to Capitol Hill, congressional leaders should be ready to go home for the holidays, but they are staring at yet another government funding deadline and scrambling to make it.

The deal coming together could have much larger implications, but lawmakers have not yet released the full text of an agreement.

That's despite Speaker Mike Johnson's assurances earlier today. We're going to take care of these obligations and get this done. We're going to take care of these agreement. That's despite Speaker Mike Johnson's assurances earlier today.

We're going to take care of these obligations and get this done, and then we're going to go to

work in unified government in the 119th Congress that begins in January.

Personal correspondent Lisa Desjardin is checking her sources as we speak, but joins us now.

Lisa, I'm starting to think that Yogi Berra was talking

about Congress and not baseball when he said this is deja vu all over again. What, bring us up to

speed? I am. I'm checking to see if we have the text of this bill yet, and we do not. The

deadline is Friday, as our viewers know, and let me just first make a plea to our viewers. I know you want to change the channel probably right now.

People do not like dealing with this again and again, but it really is worth understanding what's

happening in this moment. I'm going to say some of it is the same, but there's two reasons that

this is different. One is what we expect to be in this particular short-term funding bill.

It's not just that. So let's talk about a couple of things that are in the bill. First of all, it would extend government funding to mid-March, so that means we're going to,

we are going to be back here again in March. Now, there's really $100 billion for disasters,

and that includes hurricane damage that we saw obliterated many parts of the South and Southeast.

This is something new. There will be $10 billion in direct aid to farmers.

Part of that has to deal with drought. And also, this would allow year-round ethanol sales.

We know that that is a powerful force, and some in the middle of the country particularly have

wanted it. Now, the second reason this is important. Critical test for Speaker Mike Johnson,

and so far he is having a very hard time getting this

across the finish line. Many of his Republicans don't like that it is this late. They

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