Republicans stop gap spending proposal that would avert a government shutdown in the coming days is up against a key hurdle this evening.

Following this all is our own congressional correspondent Lisa Desjard. Dan, who joins me now. Lisa, good to see you.

Good to see you.

Here we go again. So four days now until another potential government shutdown. What are House Republicans proposing and do they have the votes?

Reminder, Republicans do control all three branches of government. They don't have 60 votes in the

Senate yet. But Republicans over the weekend in the House did propose an extension of government

funding. It would extend funding for six months. And it is not a so-called clean bill. It is a

bill that has some very interesting specifics to it. So I want to look at those. Number one, at the top, this would cut $13 billion

in non-defense. Relative to all of government spending, that's not a lot, but it's a statement

from Republicans that that's where they want to cut. It would increase $6 billion for defense

spending. It would also increase $500 billion for defense spending.

It would also increase $500 million for the women, infant, and children's program.

That helps mothers, especially with babies.

Now, in this bill, there is also something missing.

There is no fix for Medicare doctor rate cut.

We've even talked about this a lot.

This was expected to be solved in this bill, but on January 1st, Medicare doctors saw their

reimbursement rate cut by almost 3%.

This is something that was supposed to be taken care of before now, supposed to be in

this bill, and it is not.

This is a real problem for those doctors.

In addition, one more item in this that is divisive, this would increase spending

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