Tamara Keith

So, Jimena, we've got a Republican senator here, a Republican senator there, a little bit of movement.

Does this mean that this is all going to come together easily?

I feel like we've seen this show before.

All right.

So there's a lot for us to be watching.

And, you know, I just thinking back to the last shutdown, you know, eventually Democrats caved or at least enough Democrats caved on the health care subsidy fight to reopen the government.

They agreed to the promise of a vote on subsidies without the guarantee of passage.

So could this two weeks come close and then, you know, some version of that happens where they're promised to vote somewhere off in the distance, Sam?

There's a House of Representatives where Republicans have an incredibly narrow majority.

And there has been a fair bit of rumbling that they don't like this.

They come back Monday night.

What happens next?

Is there a risk that this short term weekend government shutdown becomes something else?

The one thing that might weigh in favor of the House moving this deal forward is the president himself.

He is very influential.

And last night he put his stamp of approval on this deal to separate out the Homeland Security funding.

He wrote on Truth Social, hopefully both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed bipartisan yes vote.

Typically, he has been able to get House Republicans to take votes they don't want to take.

He has had incredible influence over them.

So he clearly does not want an extended government shutdown, certainly not over this issue.