On this vote, the A's are 336, the nays are 95, two thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed. >> Speaker 2: Okay, I have to admit, little bit surprised. The House of Representatives has actually passed their sort of specific, [00:00:18] segmented out stopgap funding bill to allow for the government to remain funded. That actually happened, it happened before the deadline. Now, the reason that it happened had very little to do with the Republicans who control the House, but the new speaker was able to actually make it happen. [00:00:36] I guess passing one of the first tests of sort of the bare minimum of allowing our government to continue to run. So, as I said, obviously Democrats were integral to this, almost all the Democrats, by the way, but a majority of Republicans did actually vote for this. [00:00:51] The way that it was being discussed required a two thirds vote. So an even higher threshold, but because they had basically all the Democrats, they were able to pass that 336 to 95. So that is quite a few Republicans that are still opposed to it, and [00:01:06] we're certainly going to get to some of their rationales for that. But if you didn't see our coverage earlier this week, I wanna remind you of how long, assuming the Senate goes along with this, this would allow the government to continue to function. It would fund federal agencies at current spending levels with two different [00:01:24] expiration dates. So for some government programs, fairly core ones, by the way, January 19 would be the extension. For others, it would be February the second. There's going to be a number of issues, including, as we talked about, military aid to Israel and Ukraine and some policies having to do with the border, [00:01:40] they're going to require separate discussions. So this now provides them with a couple of months to dive into that. And that is where those hardline conservatives will definitely be trying to get what they want. But while I guess it's a good thing that it is going to be extended, I also want to remind everyone that as annoyed as like. [00:01:57] I might be covering the constant battle to just keep the government funding, and you might be having to hear these stories over and over. Reminder that most people agree with us that this is stupid and it needs to end. Three quarters of Americans don't think that government shutdowns should be [00:02:15] a tool used to pursue your political strategy. 23% think that it's acceptable and what do you know? Right now, Republicans are more than twice as likely, 37% to Democrats, 18% to say that you should be able to use it to bargain. I would guess that when the Democrats are in charge, [00:02:32] that's probably reverse, but in either case, it is a very minority position. Someday we got to fix this system. But JR, are you surprised that they got a deal? >> Speaker 3: They always do eventually, even when they do the things like hold up [00:02:48] and shut down the government for a week or two or even a couple weeks. And go through the process of showing just how bad they are at this or how much they really can't get away from their own selves. So yeah, I guess in a way I'm surprised, but also it always ends up that way at the end of it all. [00:03:03] But Mike Johnson being a part about this is really where this whole thing changes because look, Kevin McCarthy was trying to do this too. It didn't really work out for him as we saw what happened his way, but Mike Johnson, who was one of the people, who was always one of the disruptors. Part of the group that was against the normal way that they do things and [00:03:18] they could have their issues with, know some of the points that people make about the way that the funding happens. And handouts and giveaways and inserting things that don't have anything necessary to do with certain bills. And even when it comes to spending, I get all that stuff. If they actually go and specifically go about that, then you could have some more, [00:03:36] I guess, credence behind your argument. But when it's just destroy the government and let's block that so we can get our way even though we don't have enough of a majority to do so. That's just petulant behavior and doesn't have much to do with being a responsible official, elected official, instead of do the work of the people. [00:03:54] It goes back to this them again themselves. But then once Mike Johnson is in charge just a few weeks ago gets in charge, suddenly this guy knows how to try and work with other folks cuz obviously they need Democrats to get this through. And then is able to work with other folks and then do the things that he was always against. Weird how that works. [00:04:10] I didn't know this is gonna become a Kevin McCarthy credit session, but a little bit. Dude's doing the same. >> Speaker 2: You're sort of getting to like there's these multiple levels of irresponsibility and performative stupidity for representatives. [00:04:27] They're obviously going to use this as a tool to accomplish their goals. But how willing are they actually to have the government shut down for a long time or just to not actually make good on our national debt? We know that those in charge have always said that they're willing to do that, but [00:04:43] that would also, if that were to happen. It hurts all of their buddies at the golf courses and their fancy dinner. So they don't actually want that. And I guess maybe Johnson, you can now add into that list. It was a sort of open question of whether he actually would be on that side of it. But there are dozens other, I think, [00:05:00] who maybe actually are willing to let everything get set on fire. And so far, they don't have enough power that there aren't enough of them to actually make it happen, but feels like we're moving in that direction, everyone. So race for impact. [MUSIC]