I got to wrap up in a few moments upstairs, but I expect that we will be proceeding forward.

We will not have a government shutdown and we will meet our obligations for our farmers who need aid,

for the disaster victims all over the country, and for making sure that military and essential services

and everyone who relies upon the federal government for a paycheck is paid over the holidays.

I'll give you the more details here in just a few moments.

This is Peter Schweitzer. That's Eric Eggers, and we were just listening to Speaker Johnson,

who is saying that there is going to be no government shutdown.

I guess the devil is going to be in the details, and we have a great guest to talk to us exactly about what's going on in Capitol Hill.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace is joining us.

She's on the House Oversight Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Veterans Affairs Committee.

She's a congresswoman from South Carolina.

Congressman Mace, thanks for joining us.

Are you as optimistic as Speaker Johnson is on the fate of this bill?

Well, he has a better whip count than I do.

It's hard to say at this point, but I think he'll need a number of Democrats to ensure

that there is no government shutdown based on the way things are going this afternoon.

We'll see. We don't have a time on when we are voting and haven't seen the final language in the

legislation.

So you've been very principled in that you actually voted against a bill that President

Trump wanted and voted on it on principle, which I think is great.

What is your view of the debt ceiling?

There has been this kind of weird sort of alliance almost between Donald Trump and Elizabeth

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