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community center? it is way more than that. comcast is ping committee centers to create wi-fi enabled buildings so uden anything. >> comcast supports c-span as a public service along with these otr television providers, seat to democracy. on mondays, when congresslike e some time to look at the week aheadn an normal because there is a holland goingjoining us to taket is eric foley, congressional reporter with the hill newspaper. let's talk budget firsy9■. congrr short-term funding deal at the end of last week to buy themselves more timeremind viewers what the new deadlines are that are hanging over congress. gu■÷es congress is staring down

a march 8 and march 22 deadline. march 8 is for agriculture, commerce,that is kind of seen af the easierthey jan that would entail bills coming up for the deadline. march 22 is wher coming up. a tougher deadline, funding for homeland security, pentagon, labor, health and human services education. host: to members think they have enough time for that larger package on the 22nd? what are the sticking points? guest: members have definitely started to look ahead. ey've been working on crafting these bills for the past few weeks. i think the probis just it is a little bit harder to come agrnt time, homeland

l is something that is seen more as a policy delvin■] it ending bill. there's a lot of different thinoing on worldwide right now. different types of provisions the people are pushi for, we will see what ends up coming up. ■7the sticking points early on,g about irs funding, social security. they've been pretty harsh about specific detailsi but i'm expecting a lot more to come out in the weeks ahead. host: there's a potential for a 1% across the government shutdown. i'm sorr across the government budget cut if congress can't come to a deal. would that happen and when would that kick in? guest: kick in after april if congress failed to pass congress already has technically

kind of triggered the it just hasn't taken effect yet. there's also a lot of confusion as that would take effect if they were to do something like a year-loto bill which isn't really possible but is something that conservatives wanted. that is different w after april 30. but how me is it would take us across the board and it would be kind of indiscrimat it's not like if you work for the education department i'm god decide how this is going. , it would be program by program but there are still a lot of diffe around how this cut would be implemented if they were to come to more deadlines, that potential for 1% across the board cut. what does it all mean politically for speaker johnson right now?

guest: people talk to conservatives even about this, he is doing the best job he can right now. the bells that are coming out are more in linethat is in linet was already brokered byand kevi. i think after a certain point people feel like the writing is already on the wall. m>some conservatives have alreay written off these bills before they came out because they don't this is just a time where republicans have at least some funding in some way and having an influencelevels in a way thas different fr tts last they controlled congress. thgoing to gethis unders9und all of this in. it seems some conservatives ar giving jnson grief but we do see what happens when we talk

security funding. host: go ahead and start calling in. plenty going on this week on capitol hill. taking a look at the week ahead. for republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent, (202) 748-8002. stated the union is thursday evening. what we know at point, has there been any assertive guest:ctation that democrats are ng that the president is focusing in some way on trying to communicateegislative achievements. being more effective in communicating bipartisan all these increases for the irs,

how has that helped impact service? i think they also feel like tena better job when it comes to the economy. there are a lot of people happyt we are not in the recession currently but at the same time i think there has still been a lot of americans with rising inflat.how do you communicate te gains? there's also all the pageantry that we watched,■$ the other stuff that goes on that night. when it comes tobeprofile guest, have you heard anything on that front perhaps sitting with a member of the other party or wearing a certain color for a certain cause? have you heard about any of not yet, but i'm sure that will come out ini think a n

government funding a te already trying to line up what passage might look like in the house and then the senate i definitely expect more of those details in the days ahead. host: super tuesday is tuesday, stated the union is thursday. government running deadline friday. on, taking your questions here in washington. thiss democrat, your up first. caller: yes, i was wondering a couple of things. is this the longest time i guess in monthshat we've gone without a budget? the budget was supposed to have in past last fall. you are supposed to pass an entire budget. is this the record longest be gone without a budget? ed to be divided up■k and passed in

14 different spending bills connecticut many. that hasn't happened either. they are supposed to be spending bills and they haven't. they've only gotten four or five. maybe you can explain the budget process and are we guest: technically, congress is supposed to st bills on all of e various different -- federal government operations. the senate did pass the funding bills. but the house did pass more bills on the floor. i think it was just a lot of difficultyith the fact that these votes are more partisan in nature and you have such a narrow margin board. on the se side, partly if republican:">5 due to

whatever suspicion you, but we will just say this is not the long that congress has gone. i am pretty sure we had stopgap bills before which essentially level and we can't work out an agreemenxítvel. host: a■,e. this is from the pure research service. this is a chart of congress passing its spending bills, 12 appropriations bills by october 1. passed,er the line, the more getting up to 100% here means the congress passed all 12 by october 1 in that year.

last time that happened was 1996, and you can see a very few number of spending bills passed in recent years. usually it becomes an omnibus package or as you arebut it wase the congress passed all 12 spending bills 1, that deadline they are given each year. a chart we will refer to again in the future. this isindependent. caller: good morning. yes, hi. host: what is your question? call: i think the main concern, you are talking abo up. the main problem that every time youising it. it is like using a credit card and raising the lithink it is at you have to balance youryou hady

both tremendously raise the demoney. the problem is this is the future of the country. ou can do is a corrupted because that will cause major economic problems hereso for thy it is really notiden u.s. natiot currentlycx at -- and counting. members talking about getting the debt control right now. cast: that is been a major focus certainl the rublican congress. i just think they have very different ways. ans are always at least focused a lot on bringing down

overall spending. democrats fomore on tht2e tamors like the■g■? irs, focused on gog after what they say5 areealthy tax cheats, or corporations that have found poleshat maybe are not accessible to the average american. some experts say that a combination of some changes on the tax side the tax side in conjunction with the bank cuts approach. but the bill that is expected to be■+ pas, the funding bill that are coming too it is more in line with the government deal by

that would help reduce projected deficits. +st: $460 billion package this week that we are focusing on. six agencies that are the department of transportation, agriculture, interior, housing and urban developments. ■ are talking about it, one of many things going on this weekg. caller: good morning. i've just 50 about b you know, random thoughts go through mynd after the republicans killed the border

i was thinking isn't that very much like this analogy. you have a republican and a democrat in a boat a if the boat starts sinking because there are 10 holes in the boat, the democrat said hurry and live as many holes as we can and they don't have enough to plug all 10 holes. and then the republicans as well, it is not all 10 so we are just going to let the boat sink. isn't that sort of what happened with the border bill? that republicans just said well we an't ge it totally die? that is all i have to say. thoughts on that analogy? guest: i think there are a lot of democrats who would agree with that. andre of course some republicans with the border bill. there was a lot of politics at play. a lot of different pressure.

that we are in election season, and you have one of the who by no means is what you consider a moderate republican le supplies that he was able to negotiate and actually produce something that fell apart in that way. hope is that at least for term, they be able to put forth what they feel is a more robust packagevery different schools of thought around this debate. k to the state of the union, the republican from alabama set to give the republican response to president biden's state of the union.

have you had a chance to talk to her about what she will ta and f congress giving the state of the union response? guest:guest: i haven't had a chance to k her, but i'm very interested. i'm -- both sides have belkingy so i think that will be the bigger issue. senator katiett is also the top republican on the appropriio■umeland security ands had some prettykids to talko me pressure particularly after thep criticism from democrats. ■ opinion, democrats coulde more and the president in

particular in his 2023 budget. she has had a lot to say about that so i wouldn' sides are talking about and i think she has been trying to kif counter, her and other republicans, democrats talking on this matter. host: independent line, good morning. ca good morning. how are you both? host: well. ca: say there hasn't a balanced budget since president clinton was in office. this figure of the house was a ingrich. that wmhe lt time a budget was passed. today, politics is purely politics. they don't care about us, thethr

next election. w a democrat crossover to oust kevin mccarthy and to get ri joshantothat's the last y crossed over. they do not crossover, there are very stern, they will not budge. to them bipaanill is everything they want and nothing a republican wants. . the democrats will never crossover. it is always 5-3, 44-. but democrats never crossover. host: eric■ártisan votes, crossing of the aisle. guest: i think it depends on who

you talk to. i expert but i definitely know there were a lot of democrats who were very upset and advocatesite border deal and democrats still voted■c for it. at the same there are republicans whodemocrats are a e effective at being unifiedd cers and some conservatives feel like the pay doing more to get behind a more conservative agenda. but at the same time, it depends . measures particularly in government funding wherevernmeny happy about everything in the bill. ■j be said for

republicans. governnt fng is always an example where you can see both sides have wins declaim and also losses against the other side. ■host: i think the caller w talking about two different things, a balanced budget and the last time congress completed all this 12 appropriations bills on time. time there was a balanced budt it was 1996 the last time congress completed all 12 appropriations bills on time. does that jive with your memory of it? guest: that seems right. going to be after the initial deadline? probably. host: this is coming up this october. so have they started that press yet even while they are trying to finish the current

year budget? guest: have definitely said ey are looking ahead andre are a lot of republicans who are really excit tt 2025 is going toring resch, new start, hit the ground running. assets because they are not happy and they feel lthe house is losing a lot more leverage to democrats and sometimes kind of said that they feel like they're in the senate. have the majority and still have to difficulty for leadership to unify its members in this way. host: west virginia, republican, good morning. ■■caller: yes. i think the main reason they are having trouble passing these lls did opening the border.

to come to the border. this is all on the democrats. what happened to the billjust lr and they never even passed it? if they need money, all they have to do is take -- just figure out how many government employees and state employeare . just give them their holid let them have the day off. don't paving. use that money for something. host: i think he's referring to hrcan you update us where that ? guest:nú■kigthat bill definitele house. fgi don't think that was any expectation at all that that was going toe someth passed the senate.

that wasn't a bill that was designed to pass the senate. that was a bill that was border and asylum. that w that was meant to pass the senate. and one that comes up in conversations, if you were to ask a democrat hey, do you guys want ukraine funding? aw want israel funding, why not just pass hr2? i don't think you would get an answer because i guess it is not something that would pass -- i can't see why democratic leadership would bring up something that would gt ■stmayb. i don't know. i can see how that d it is just not something that ever seen as a starter. in may of last year, party-line vote■fr? virginia, d,

good morning. caller: i think that the senate laws run very good if they get rid of trump trump controls this republican party. so instead of going to the congress to give anythingt as wt them and go to trump. the best thing that could happen in the united states is for trump to jump off of the trump tower. host:k that was a viewer in -- i forget what state he was in. auburn, new york, public and. good morning. spending and government funding of everything.

and the creation of programs and the bureaucracies tcome i all of those things arxthey'll . ate sector. this contest between the spendi at , pensionsnd holidays like the guy in west virginia people, and now we borrow money because either you -- or you put it in a big $34 lagoon of that-st the idea. a government jobit has to be pa. the more government you create, the more tax liabilities you create. host: do you have a question?

caller: well know, that was more of a comment than yti just wantf these bills. host: yeah. caller: you g a■z read through this, it nobody reads it. there should be a rule somewhere on any appropriations that it n'■;zo be more than 10 pages long. you break it off, you vote on that, and if you got more to do, keep raking it down. their except the special interests that write the bills. ■2ho the point. extremely long bills. guest: the caller shares a both sides of the aisle probably havease are prepared to see congress vote in the coming days on more than 1000 pages.

buthisincludes six funding bill. it is expected to be long. they are not a different program and they are hashing out the funding levels for each one program five program. so thet congress eventually moves through f taking up this process through what they would call regular order. you are not doingf it again for shutdown deadline, you doing this throughout the year. i approach -- they are already r 2025 and they are already acknowledgi aty are leaving part of the heinlein that process artsthey so s bills the rest of the month for the current fiscal year. host: last call, mary out of tho

say that trump put us a $.3 trillion debt. trump.■ and trump does not care about the american peopl trump runs the rlican an wants,s it. so done that he wants to get done because johnson is too far up heiney■éso trump wants us to■a, everything. pensions, social security and everything because he wants to■g to save us, but he's not. to take down america and i wish american people would realize that and they wish that your reporter would report things about that. and it has nothing to do with the democrats not wanting to

rk. host: got your point. ononald trdn speaker johnson dynamic. guest: i mhat the caller is saying, that is shidget sidet mocrathave definitely pointed out. they were still also significant spding under trump. speadynamic,ohpportive of trumpc between mcconnell and trump. would like a second trump term. sure what else to divulge their. host: a lot going on this week in track it all from super tuesday to state of the union to

budget negotiations, the hill newspaper. appreciate the■b from columbia university's school of inwah ve today at 3:0. eastern on c-span, c-span now,

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