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The bill over the finish line. David k. Johnson its an worse than you think what the Trump Administration is doing to america. Jennifer, ill start with you. Has the Jones Victory altered the calculations happening right now in regard to the tax about il . Absolutely. They have no margin for error if this drags into january, theyll go to 51 49. Secondly, i think there is a realization that what are they doing sticking with this president . He is not going to help them. If he cant help someone in ...

Increased it by two fold so far. he -- our friends at cnn business did some number crunching to put this record in perspective. in his presidency to date 645 trading days to be precise trump has seen the stock market rise 29%. but that lags way under the stock market growth by obama at this point of his president at 46%. but the stock market is the least of our worries. its the merciless budget math that doesnt add up. with deficits exploding due to a giddy combination of tax cuts and spending h...

House. unapologetic, promising to push her liberal priorities and dismissing those who question her budget math. >> if people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, i would argue that theyre missing the forest for the trees. i think there is a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct rather than being morally right. the president now saying he will head to the southern board. the trip scheduled for thursday, according to the whit...

On this stuff and budget math. but what is that big issue? >> the big issue is funding. our funding is that low in arizona. we have teachers working two, three jobs in order to stay in the classroom. and as long as our teachers have to work two or three jobs to stay in the classroom, it isnt a profession. they also said its about improving schools, not just teacher pay but everyone who makes school work. the first person my daughter sees in the morning, miss melanie, our bus driver, shes got an ...

>> marco rubio, i think he genuinely believes in the policy hes pushing, i think thats true of mike lee, i think they want to see this in here. i also think its good policy. and in fact if they structure the entire tax bill around it they might have a piece of legislation that was polling two-third in the other direction. jennifer, to the point david made, now theyre floating theyre considering letting the tax cuts on the family side expire sooner so they can get more money to bring down the top...

And in fact if they structure the entire tax bill around it they might have a piece of legislation that was polling two-third in the other direction. jennifer, to the point david made, now theyre floating theyre considering letting the tax cuts on the family side expire sooner so they can get more money to bring down the top rate for millionaires. everything they do to this bill is making it less popular somehow. >> it is amazing. almost like theres a contest, how do we make this the worst possi...

In that direction. to the degree certainly the base of the party has which is why president obama was cautious. >> sanders has offered single-payer legislation before. and as previously, the budget math inclined toward vagueness. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, the democratic leaders in the house and senate respectively, declined to endorse the standards measure with pelosi telling "the washington post" it wont be a litmus test for democrats in 2018. republicans were eager to portray it as such....

To the degree certainly the base of the party has which is why president obama was cautious. >> sanders has offered single-payer legislation before. and as previously, the budget math inclined toward vagueness. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, the democratic leaders in the house and senate respectively, declined to endorse the standards measure with pelosi telling "the washington post" it wont be a litmus test for democrats in 2018. republicans were eager to portray it as such. >> i think we are ...

Republicans? over the last 24 hours, the cordiality of the last week kind of turned to sniping again. >> were not going to balance the budget in ten years, because if you look at what paul ryan does to balance the budget, it means that you have to voucherize medicare. you have to slash, deeply, into programs like medicaid. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. my goal is, how do we grow the economy, put people back to work. >> paul ryan responded by mocking the ...

That this kind of budget is not sustainable. what does this tell you about how serious hes going to be about cuts? what is the obama campaign going to do to make it that connection? to make people understand that if the republicans get the power and theyre all about power, that this is whats coming. >> the fact is that romneys budget math never added up in the first place. hes got these $5 trillion tax cuts. he hasnt said how he will pay for them. he increases defense spending beyond what the de...