Good morning to you. It is Sunday, November the 12th. I'm Ali Velshi. We begin this morning

with the countdown to another shutdown. Congress only has about five and a half days to pass some

kind of measure to keep the federal government funded or otherwise risk closing down some

agencies and

suspending some services right before the holidays. But as has been the case since the beginning

of this Congress, unresolved issues within the dysfunctional House Republican Conference

continue to derail progress. During a conference-wide call yesterday afternoon, this man,

the speaker, Mike Johnson,

unveiled his plan to fund the government, which involves a novel and untested approach called

a laddered continuing resolution, or CR. Under this plan, funding for some services and agencies,

such as military and veterans programs and the departments of transportation and housing

and urban development, among others, will be extended at current levels until the first

deadline, which is January 19th. Meanwhile, funding will be extended until February the second,

a couple weeks later, for the rest of the government, including for the departments of state,

justice, health, and human services. It'll be a clean bill. No other provisions will be attached to it, meaning it will not include

funding for Ukraine, for Israel, or border security. These are the three main sticking points

driving divisions in Congress recently, but it didn't take long for Republicans to once again

come out against their own party's proposal. Just minutes after Johnson

announced the lattered CR, at least three House Republicans announced their opposition to the bill.

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green said that she will be voting no on this clean,

continuing resolution. Warren Davidson of Ohio said he'll be voting against it, adding,

quote, disappointing as is as polite as I can muster, end quote. And the Texas congressman,

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