Lawmakers on capitol hill have less than a month to prevent a government shutdown speaker my johnson postponed of oh yesterday in a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs
funded for six months democrats are almost certain to rejects the inclusion of the save act which would require proof of us citizenship to vote a number of republican lawmakers have also said
they oppose the measure a b c j o’brien is on capitol hill with the latest j what is going on with this boat when is it expected to
happen is that expected to pass walk us through this nobody really knows diane when this could even be brought up for a vote because mike johnson is you said has pulled his recent blog as it just doesn’t have the votes for it as you said there are democrats as ever
-not going to vote for the save active think it’s a solution in want of a problem there isn’t widespread non citizen voting and there are already safeguards in place
democrats say to prevent that meantime on johnson’s right flag there are further right republicans are say they don’t want to vote for any temporary kind of government funding measure because they say that’s not the way the government should be funded so
mike johnson is at an impasse he was to twain really a rock and a hard place in the house is in this holding pattern while johnson decides does he want to try to work on republicans on his right flank and maybe try to make them more likely to vote for a
temporary government funding measure that has that non citizen voting provision in it that looks unlikely those spelling hawks are likely to stay or
does he take out the non citizen voting and try to do some kind of a deal with democrat that’s politically more likely but it involves mike johnson making a serious concession
-and this that all come down to be election in a couple of mine’s at that timing critical here for what they want to do with my johnson is always wanted to put in some
kind of conservative red meat into these government funding negotiations and so far it’s been unsuccessful think back to the last you know impending
-government shutdown that we almost had that was narrowly avoided and it was over immigration right mike johnson one of the put in that hard line border security
provision into that temporary government funding legislation and that didn’t succeed and that’s what he’s essentially trying to do here with this non citizen voting provision in chuck schumer has said essentially
warning my johnson that it doesn’t want to turn this into some kind of a groundhog day scenario and repeat what schumer says are johnson’s mistakes of the past but you’re exactly right the reason why johnson is
looking so sternly at this non citizen voting is a he believes that something that is necessary to pass before the election would be it’s a serious conservative priority that he way
-wants to be able to point republican voters to and say look what we are working on local we’re trying to get done while we’re also trying to keep the lights on and the federal government
-and a government shutdown effects hundreds of thousands of people on federal pay wall as well as aspects of the economy so how much pressure lawmakers are under
to get this passed and find a resolution here and there are under significant pressure they only have about three weeks to pull this off and that as a very limited period of time when you talk about congress because congress takes a lot of break
to for instance the house is flying out today the house is not going to vote come this afternoon and they don’t come back until next week they’re not going to work
tomorrow friday they’re going to work on maybe the negotiations trying to get the votes they need but they’re not going to vote on any legislation on friday and so three weeks limited period of time and don’t forget that also it comes during the
this chaotic tents election period that ratchets up the tensions in congress sometimes it light a fire under congress to get this done quickly because nobody wants a government shutdown so cl