What a day we have here. We are told to expect a shutdown that begins tomorrow.

This is absolutely needless, completely unnecessary and wholly because of Senate Democrats trying

to shut down the government, holding the entire government hostage for a completely unrelated

issue that doesn't even have a deadline right now.

It's really almost like an amateur hour because this should have been done. We could have

come to a place where we have come to a budget agreement protecting our dreamers, which

is part of that.

Hello, Trump Castleists and his Jason here, producer of the show, jumping into the host seat

for the day. And I just want to put a timestamp right here to let you know that things are

in flux. As of this recording, it's 5.45 pm on Friday, January 19th. And last night, Thursday

night, that is the House passed a short-term extension that would fund the government through

mid-February on this. The A's are 2 30, the A's are 1 97. The motion is adopted without

objection. But that proposal is being met with objections from Senate Democrats and Senate

Republicans unwilling to pass a short-term continuing resolution.

Are you still hard now on voting for the CR?

I'm not going to vote for a 30-day CR. What the House and over is unacceptable to me. 30

days of more chaos. Forget it. The Democrats and the Senate are opposing a bill that they

don't oppose. They're four clean CRs. They're four the extension to the chip program.

And on Friday morning, Senator Graham and Mick Mulvaney were up early to make their case.

And with them, their colleagues joined to take sides and point fingers. The Democrats

saying blame the Republicans. They're the ones controlling both the legislative and executive

branches. The Republicans saying blame the Democrats. They're the ones unwilling to vote

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