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Or getting the tax cuts. >> whats most important getting the economy growing. greg: that means tax cuts? >> tax relief. also an idea that the budget window can be moved to 10 years to 20 years. its an attractive option to allow us to do that. we are focused on getting americans back to work. thats why unemployment today because of regulatory relief the president has provided is down 4.3%. the lowest its been in 16 years. greg: i want to ask you the presidents tweets its not necessarily in your w...

>> whats most important getting the economy growing. greg: that means tax cuts? >> tax relief. also an idea that the budget window can be moved to 10 years to 20 years. its an attractive option to allow us to do that. we are focused on getting americans back to work. thats why unemployment today because of regulatory relief the president has provided is down 4.3%. the lowest its been in 16 years. greg: i want to ask you the presidents tweets its not necessarily in your wheel house but cross in y...

The budget is hardwired by the congressional budget office to go up every single year. if they say we spend $100 last year and we were supposed to spend $106 this year, anything less than 107 is a cut. ive heard 106 referred to as a freeze because it stays in line with the congressional budget office. a classic example of how washington speaks differently than the world back home. there are no medicaid cuts and the terms of what ordinary human beings were returned to as a cut. when we are doing ...

Expected impact of the legislation not just on the american people broadly but also on the deficit. that earlier cbo score of an earlier version of the bill said that 24 million people would be without health insurance coverage by 2026. some are saying that this latest -- this new cbo score thats expected in the next couple of weeks could show that even more millions of americans would lose health insurance coverage, but the reason this is important for the senate is that that cbo score will let...

George w. bush lowered tax rates, we had tax reform both in 2001 and 2003. youll remember at the end of those ten years, those tax rates were set to expire. i believe it is important that we give people and businesses the certainty beyond this ten-year budget window and the way we do that is getting to budget neutrality so that those rates stay in place. thats my goal as we move forward with tax reform? maria: where does that revenue come from? if you dont have a bored adjustment, how do you mak...

From various kinds of deductions. of course, the problem with that plan, as weve discussed, is that, if you only cut taxes and dont do actual reform, you end up costing a lot of money which means not only are you going to face opposition potentially from fiscal conservatives, but also you may not be able to get this plan through because of complicated senate rules. basically you cant increase deficits beyond the ten-year budget window, so you have to do reform or you have to sunset the plan. >> ...

>> we have house speaker paul ryan on friday talking about the foreseeable future of the aca. with me now is tevi troy, former deputy secretary of health and human services under president gege w. bush and now the president of the amerin health policy institute. it is great to have you wit us. im hoping you can answer that question of timing right here because it seems as if the ambition of the gop got in the way of making this happen within the presidents first 100 days. why were they in such a...

Something. but every president has this question of what do you do first, because that first thing can very often become your signature. >> first, you want to do hard stuff first and not easy stuff. >> but you want to win, right? trump wanted to win. >> you have reconciliation, and theres a window under the budget window to do reconciliation, and you have this window and so they had to do health care first, and its hard and whether trump has gotten a whole lot of momentum, their hope was theres ...

>> the republicans. lets move aside from that. the medicaid expansion when you guys talk about when republicans in congress talk about a block grant, would that be a block grant for medicaid including the medicaid expansion or would you go back to the original medicaid and the women that we saw in that piece just there who got health care through the expansion? they would no longer have their medicaid funded. >> yeah. so, lets talk about that because not every state took the medicaid expansion m...

They have and not incentive to give the job to somebody outside the u.s. >> what do you think about the idea that the evaluations, the studies, the costing of donald trumps proposals during the campaign came out to be large deficit increases, initially we were talking about $14 trillion increase to the debt, then came down to about 3. its not revenue neutral stuff. donald trump wants to do stuff thats going to increase the debt. >> i think first of all that because they can pass the bill the way...