A number of Senate Republicans leaving a closed-door lunch, and there is no plan yet on how to move forward.

And J.D. Vance was at this lunch. People like Senator Susan Collins, who will chair that Senate appropriations committee.

He said, I truly don't know what the plan is. Others criticizing the talk of a government.

Chuck Grassley told me it was stupid to shut down the government.

At this point.

Rand Paul said getting rid of the debt limit would be fiscally irresponsible.

And then there are the Democrats.

Democrats of votes will be essential, not just in the Senate, but also in the House.

And talking to a number of those House Democrats today, they said, we had a deal.

They don't want to cut a new one that Trump is demanding.

This is ridiculous right now.

What he's trying to do is insert something that is a negotiating tool into an already negotiated agreement to keep the government open.

I've got to get my community prepared for what is likely to be a government shutdown. I have border patrol agents, CBP officers, TSA, air traffic controllers, a lot of federal

employees, a lot of public servants who depend on their paychecks.

Now, meantime, Trump has continued to dig in and said that a debt limit increase must be part of this negotiation.

And that is what the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, is now trying to deal with behind the scenes.

There have been a flirty of meetings to try to get Republicans on board behind one plan.

There is no consensus yet,

which is why there are major fears right now in the capital of a government shutdown, a

potentially prolonged one as well. Guys. And you know, once Musk came out swinging and whipping

people into a frenzy, I just think it was really, really going to be difficult for Johnson

to sort of put everyone back

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