Mimi Geerges highlights President Trump’s Truth Social nomination of Kevin Warsh, a Hoover Institution and Stanford economist, while discussing the five-bill funding mini-bus with The Hill’s Al Weaver. Deadline: February 13, but Senator Lindsey Graham’s hold over Arctic Frost repeal—blocking lawmakers from suing for seized phone records—threatens delays amid Jack Smith’s probe. Negotiations between Schumer and Trump remain indirect; House votes on Monday could trigger a shutdown if disputes persist, exposing fragile bipartisan compromises in fiscal 2025. [Automatically generated summary]
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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.
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.
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last night, Senator Lindsey Graham made clear he has a hold on this bill over the Arctic Frost provision that is being repealed by House members.
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.
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.