aren t coming back. they are coming back under trump. you have seen a spike because of the tax cuts. if any objective analysis has shown that the job growth recession had ended well under obama and it has continued. this trade war that trump is creating has a big-time effect on hurting us in the long-term. these unpaid for tax cuts are there. laura: how is it hurting you in the long desh-term? do you think it is sustainable to have a $380 billion trade deficit? i think it is cliche. politics is cliche. so is sports. it is just a change. that can t continue for the country. at some point, you have to pay the piper. there are deficits in unpaid for tax cuts. laura: the problem is, we had
they make assumptions about who would drop their health care if they weren t mandated to buy it and it might save the government money under medicate, pangs and also in the subsidies that the government pays out to people who have obamacare plans and make under a certain a. income level. it essentially says that the cbo estimates it would save the government $380 billion over the course of ten years. that s a significant chunk of a 1$1.5 trillion tax plan. the dramatic switch from last week, republicans were saying why would we want to do this, inject the toxic politics of health care that tripped up our conference so much into a tax debate that frankly had been seem to be on a clear sailing path. it seemed to be on a track of some for the. right. i moon it feels very different up here around the legislation than it did around health care. on health care there were a lot of people who were dreading
ironically medicade is their focus. we spend about a combined amount of about $380 billion on medicade now. under the republican plan, we ll be spending $500 billion over a period of ten years. i don t know how in the world they call that a cut. unfortunately, that s the media environment with which we live. it has a way of whipping up a lot of folks that really believe some of the fallacies they are told. shannon: how do you think they re so good at communicating that? as best case you would call misinformation. a number of these groups on the left said we ve got to use this recess. they tpoeupbt the fact the bill was delayed on the senate side. saying we re working all of this push back. when they say cut and we know the numbers are maybe less than you thought you were going to get but still increasing, where does the truth get lost in there? i tell you, that is the greatest challenge in our republic right now is that we no longer invite truth to the
washington today, i did want to ask you. yes. you are arguing for nea funding. what is your case for that? well, i m with the creative coalition and we are really just do not want trump to cut funding for the nea. it s 54 cents a year per taxpayer, one dollar invested returns $9 to the economy. the arts generates 5 million jobs with a salary of, you know, $380 billion a year. we re the second largest export in this country. the nea is fundamental to everything about our economy and our souls, the arts it s the soul, it s the heart and soul of this country. we went around today with the creative coalition and lobbied. i met with mr. kilmer, mr. dent, mr. cole and mr. schumer both, you know, different sides of the aisle and everyone is in support of not cutting the funding for the nea. and people could get more
acting the famous rainbow flag symbol for lgbt rights. and funny or die. a trade. zbrooes greece joins u.s. if eu takes the state of florida. greece becomes a weird state like untached one. boom. welcome to america. have a hot dog. we with absorb the $380 billion debt and enjoy their yogurt beaches, columns and what hot. florida becomes a european nation that we never have to look at, read headlines about or hold primary elections in ever again. interesting. all right. that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. 22 minutes past the hour in washington. i m joined by bob. i m afraid to ask what you think about that. well as a matter of fact i understand we re going to talk