Tamara Keith

Sam, as you said, these asks are not necessarily new, but is there a sense that Republicans are more willing to engage on some of this?

And we should remind everyone that Tom Tillis is

now a Republican retiring.

I think that is like a different category of Republican senator.

They are retiring and more free to speak their mind.

And he is empowered by being on the way out.

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.