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Government Shutdown Negotiations
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| Following the reports, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the arrest was at her discretion and accused Mr. Lemon and others for coordinating an attack on the church. | ||
| Coming up shortly, we'll take you live to the Justice Department, where we're likely to hear more from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch. | ||
| You can follow our live coverage when that begins here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| We have some breaking news for you this morning, and that is President Trump has announced his pick for Fed chair. | ||
| He just sent out a Truth Social. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| It says, I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. | ||
| Kevin currently serves as the Shepherd Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. | ||
| We will get more into his background later in the program. | ||
| But before we get to your calls, we are joined by a Capitol Hill reporter to update us on what's happening there. | ||
| That's Al Weaver, staff writer at The Hill. | ||
| Al, welcome to the program. | ||
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Thank you for having me. | |
| So explain to us this deal and what does it entail? | ||
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Sure. | |
| The White House and Sun Democrats came out lately or early evening yesterday, said that they have a deal to split off the DHS portion of the six-bill mini-bus. | ||
| So now basically it'll be a five-bill mini-bus that funds things like the Pentagon, labor, health and human services, those type of departments. | ||
| That'll be through the end of the fiscal year through the end of September while peeling off this DHS portion. | ||
| The timeline for that now is a deal by Valentine's Day weekend, February 13th. | ||
| And that's going to be an uphill climb for legislators to try to nail down a deal on that. | ||
| But right now, things have kind of hit a snag. | ||
| Late last night, Senator Lindsey Graham made clear he has a hold on this bill over the Arctic Frost provision that is being repealed by House members. | ||
| It was a House-led effort. | ||
| And just remind us, that was the ability of lawmakers to sue the Justice Department if their phone records are taken. | ||
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The phone records were seized in Jack Smith's probe, yes. | |
| And he is one of the only ones that has said, yes, I would take money and I would put it in my bank account and that type of thing. | ||
| And it's been a bit of a lonely journey for Senator Graham. | ||
| But he's holding this up and he can do it for many days if he so chose, just like any other senator. | ||
| And is he willing to shut down the government over this? | ||
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It remains he's making a stink about it now. | |
| Whether he's willing to shut down part of the government, it remains unclear. | ||
| And tell us about who was involved in this negotiation. | ||
| I know that Senator Schumer was involved. | ||
| Did he meet directly with President Trump on this? | ||
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It doesn't appear so. | |
| I mean, I think they had some backtail negotiations. | ||
| I haven't seen, there's not been reporting that they have met face to face on this. | ||
| But those were the two main principles of this. | ||
| Leader Thune had made clear that the negotiation needed to happen between those two. | ||
| Trump can also bring along House Republicans eventually when this bill reaches the House in the coming days, because that's going to be a mountain to climb of its own. | ||
| So that's why there was those two. | ||
| Let's talk about the House because they are not in session today. | ||
| They were out all week. | ||
| Does that mean that the government is going to shut down over the weekend because they're not going to have, they're not going to come back until Monday to vote? | ||
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We're going to leave this to take you live to the Justice Department, where Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch is speaking to reporters. | |