"We felt good last week, but not only did the Senate then pass the bill, we're hearing now that the House may go ahead and take the Senate amendments or move very quickly to accept the Senate amendments and we may save as many as 10 or 12 legislative days," the White House budget chief said.
"I think there's actually a pretty good chance to get a deal," Mulvaney said. "It's just Murray-Alexander in its current form probably isn't far enough."
"I'm not certain yet what the president is looking for here, but I'll be happy to bring a bill to the floor if I know President Trump will sign it," McConnell told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
"This is a good compromise. It took months to work out. It has a majority. It has 60 senators supporting it, we have all 48 Democrats, 12 Republicans.”
“I think he's getting a lot more done than he's giving everybody credit for," he told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "I think the president ought to give himself a little more credit for the changes that he is bringing about that are turning the country in a different direction."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Sunday that he doesn't expect Republican Senate candidates to take a position on whether they will vote for him as majority leader in the future.
"It's obviously an unfortunate situation. We need to unite behind our gold star families to embrace them with compassion and support, not to drag them into partisan politics.”
“I think we’re all fair game,” Petraeus, the retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director, told ABC's Martha Raddatz on "This Week." "We, in uniform, protect the rights of those to criticize us, frankly.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in an interview on Sunday agreed with Rep. Frederica Wilson's (D-Fla.) claim that there are white supremacists in the Trump administration, saying they are "sprinkled around the White House."
"California is the economic engine of the United States of America, we on our own, as a state could be the sixth economic power in the world," Xavier Becerra (D) said. "The U.S. needs California as much as I believe California needs to be part of the United States."
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz argued in an interview aired Sunday that NFL team owners are in the driver's seat on the issue of racial justice protests at league games, citing the power of the owners to shut down the protests without violating the players' rights.
A top Democratic strategist is praising key figures in the Trump administration, saying the presence of former Wall Street executives helps instill confidence in the financial markets.
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