Trump tells GOP to reject funding bill that would avoid a government shutdown
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Not even 24 hours after congressional leaders released a 1,500-page bill that would keep the government |
| 0:06.8 | funded for the next three months, the threat of a shutdown at the end of this week is back. |
| 0:12.4 | Republicans in Congress are being pressured by the President-elect and vice president-elect |
| 0:16.5 | to block the bill. |
| 0:18.1 | On social media, Mr. Trump said Congress should instead pass a streamlined spending |
| 0:23.0 | bill, and he told Republicans to get smart and tough. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin |
| 0:28.7 | has been following the latest. So Lisa, three days until government funding runs out, what's the |
| 0:34.4 | deal with this bill? How much jeopardy is this facing? We joke last night about deja vu, but I want to tell you that today has been extraordinary, |
| 0:41.3 | and the stakes here are very high. This bill is now really on the verge. In fact, you can pretty much say |
| 0:47.3 | this bill is falling apart, and it's being taken off the table by Republicans. Now, I want to explain |
| 0:53.3 | a little bit about why. There are a |
| 0:54.5 | host of issues that Republicans don't like in it, that the money for disaster relief is not paid |
| 0:58.6 | for, is one, that it would include some cost of living raises for members of Congress. Also, |
| 1:03.5 | it would exempt members of Congress from Obamacare. There's also money for seasonal and migrant |
| 1:08.9 | workers who are here legally, but some Republicans |
| 1:11.9 | don't like it. |
| 1:12.6 | But overall, there's a process concern here. |
| 1:14.4 | They say they weren't consulted. |
| 1:15.5 | They didn't have enough time. |
| 1:16.9 | So I'll show you what's been happening today from members of Congress across a wide spectrum |
| 1:22.9 | of members. |
| 1:23.9 | Now, if you look at this, Chip Roy, Republican, known as a conservative, he wrote vote no. |
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