former Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Charlie Dent.

All right, so the House will gobble down for Thanksgiving one day earlier than expected.

Now you have these GOP hardliners giving the new Speaker of the House Johnson 10 days to win them over on spending.

How do you see this playing out?

Well, I think the hardliner is going to be very disappointed between now and February

the 2nd, because what will happen is... appointed between now and February the second.

Because what will happen is they're going to write the appropriations bills

to the numbers that were agreed to in the law that Speaker Johnson voted for back

with the debt ceiling. They're going to have to

write the bills to that number. What they're doing in the House right now with these

long-term spending bills are writing them to lower numbers that were not agreed

to in the law.

Now everybody knows that's a joke.

It's a waste of time.

So when they negotiate with the Senate on these spending bills

on January the 19th and then again on February 2nd,

they're going to ripen to the numbers in the laws.

The hardliners are going to hate that because they don't agree with those spending levels.

It's that simple.

So bottom line, there's no way he's going to be able to placate these GOP hardliners?

No, unless he wants to shut the government down, you know, indefinitely,

and have rolling shutdowns, you know, on January 19th,

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