and what's the risk to both parties and
the president with me now democratic
strategist jessica ehrlich
and gop strategist amanda mackey amanda
uh give us a read on where this might be
going
well look i think it should come as no
surprise that the president is upset
that there's all this money being spent
on foreign aid um
you know and even to the kennedy center
a second round of 40 million in stimulus
to the kennedy center
uh so you know he's upset and rightfully
so
he believes that the number should be
higher than 600 as do most americans
but here's where i think really people
should be angered by is the governors
and the and the mayors throughout the
country who are democrats who have
crushed their economies
that's why we're in this predicament
where we have to have these large
stimulus bills again
look at the state of florida you know
our governor has done an incredible job
of keeping our economy open we can
walk and chew gum at the same time but
new york washington dc california the
fifth largest economy in the world
have all been decimated and so we do
have to bring
uh you know much needed relief to main
street
um but this is largely as a result of
democratic governors and mayors
failing their people yeah we are where
we are i mean the mta in new york city
alone wants four billion dollars out of
that but
you know perhaps less draconian measures
wouldn't have lessened that amount
jessica
it's really interesting because this is
where you're getting an
odd bipartisan roar of approval for
president trump at least standing up and
saying 600 is woefully low
particularly in one of the largest
spending bills in the history of mankind
i mean certainly i think 600 is too low
for
americans right at this point um i think
most americans agree with that i think
most democrats agree with that
unfortunately no one asked me the person
they did
ask while they were negotiating this
bill over the last six months is
president trump
so to have a move at this point where
the idea of six hundred dollars came
from
secretary mnuchin that was what they had
proposed it's been negotiated back and
forth repeatedly it's a giant omnibus
spending bill as amanda well knows which
is why all of these other spending
measures are in there
because the government itself has not
been funded it was all postponed and
tied together in one package
which is why we're looking at a possible
only shut down
but general economy shut down frankly
for the american people if it doesn't
get passed
so to have a last-minute christmas eve
veto over saying two thousand dollars
why wasn't it said prior to the election
the president said the american people
should have two thousand dollars
democrats could have gotten behind it
republicans could have gotten behind it
but at this point it's not going to and
you're seeing a lot of push-ups
president trump asked for twelve hundred
dollars i saw many reports of things
like the washington post
where there was talk of him asking for
two thousand dollars i saw him offer 1.8
trillion dollars
before the election and your party
turned it down to help ensure that he
would lose
they put politics over the american
people so i say pox on both houses now
the idea that somehow oh it's no big
deal because this is an omnibus budget
no i i accuse congress of pushing this
large gargantuan the second largest
spending bill in history
pumping in all kinds of pet projects
like gender studies
in pakistan and using the pain and
suffering of the american public
as a reason it was all blocking they
used the pain of suffering to block
and then they pushed through this ugly
thing behind it and now they're saying
well the president waited too late
it's never too late we're talking about
it right now and amanda i think
republican lawmakers need to figure this
out
because p their voters aren't happy
either
they're not and rightfully so i mean
again to your point the pakistan gender
studies
when people are suffering here at home
no one wants to see that and
any member of congress who supports this
deserves to not be re-elected
and so very much to your point i think
cut this pork
spending uh that's going to countries uh
you know cambodia
and uh pakistan and you know all the all
the
pork that we've been hearing about in
this bill it's shameful
it really is but look main street needs
help uh we have
to help and i think that congress needs
to get its act together to see what they
can do
but at the end of the day congress is in
its own fiefdom there's a hundred
members of the senate
435 members in the house and they have
to agree
on something that can come forward and
that bill now is getting sent to them
and they already did i mean charles
i know that you're the point
conservative person
but this bill at this point is only
hurting the american people
well let me ask you jessica i'm pleased
and i only have uh have less than a
minute so please kind of be concise but
uh could there be time in room for a
compromise maybe getting back to twelve
hundred dollars in direct uh
checks to to american households well
they've actually are going to be voting
on monday on two thousand dollars the
problem is getting it out of the house
the house and senate already passed it
and it's already come
not only from senator blunt but from
mcconnell and from thune
in the republicans leading the senate
the data already agreed to the bill they
want the bill as it is
600 they don't want any more they don't
want to increase spending and that their
projects and foreign aid as senator
blunt said are in there and have been
approved
so it's throwing chaos into this and the
problem is
that the measures that are there to help
small businesses americans across this
country to get them the
help they need 600 is obviously not
sufficient
it's a drop in the bucket but it's going
to make a difference to somebody this
christmas
and the longer we wait for that and we
need to postpone
we need to postpone some of those pet
projects there's no way you cannot
squeeze in an extra 1200 bucks
in a 2.3 trillion dollar overall package
there's absolutely no way
there's so much junk in there so much
unnecessary junk in there
that they better figure it out ladies
thank you both very much really
appreciate it
so from the