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Repercussions of this bill. here he is. >> every page of this washington spending shows just how irresponsible and out of touch democrats are. >> reporter: now, this build back better package marks the late in a long line of government spending programs that date back to the early days of the pandemic during the donald trump administration. lets look at a few of these here. 192 billion in march 2020 responding to covid, also that month 2.2 billion in the cares act, another covid relief program, ...

>> reporter: as you point out romney raised more than $4.5 million after the ruling was announced yes. but he will need a white house and a filibuster-proof majority in the senate to carry out his promise. jenna. jenna: lots of things to watch in the months ahead. wendell, thank you. jon: in that supreme court opinion the supreme court ruled the individual mandate in the healthcare law is allowable only because its a tax. so what does the decision mean for you, the taxpayer? the congressional bu...

Right, that this thing was not only sent to the white house but was generated within hhs, was circulated and that staffers read this report forecasting that the health care law would drive up costs and nonetheless refused to share that with the american public. were trying to get to the bottom of that, bret. can this not be dismissed even if true by administration officials by saying its one report, we had other reports that we cited publicly saying that it will save costs. >> yeah, well, they p...

Health care, saying that time was too tight. richard foster saying that he could not get his staff to do the final bill of the analysis, but he thought it would be generally similar to the senate bill, which he analyzed and his office analyzed would -- the cost would go up by some 222 billion over the first ten years. well, the final report, if this is true, and hhs and the white house had it one week before the vote, says that health care costs would go up $511 billion in the first ten years, a...

Susan malvo joins us from capitol hill. >> amazing when the budget becomes a side show here. this will happen in a hour or so. they will be unveiling this budget and they have had an incredible amount of infighting. they were really pushing for much deeper cuts here and what is critical to know is that the reconciliation to allow them to push through tax reform. that is why this is so critically important. what is in the bott here, $21 million for defense spending. $511 billion for nondefense sp...