democratic field is endorsing medicare for all. you re right. this could be their achilles heel and where they differentiate themselves from a joe biden or anything else and buttigieg is saying medicare for those who want it kind of thing. he is watering it down. there is a sense at some point you have to come up with a number that it will cost and justify that cost. i don t know that bernie will ever be able to do that. bill: similar note here the cadillac tax is going bye-bye in the house. remember we debated this in 2010 over and over again. everybody said it was so important. no one likes it. a vote of 419-6. how did that fall apart? it underscores the challenges for joe biden. just as bernie sanders has explained the medicare for all, others will say hey, you are trying to run obamacare 2.0. one of the key features of it, the cadillac tax, when was the
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preferred 30 days. but privately they are saying that five days is absolutely a nonstarter with the white house. that said, the white house seems to be a little more optimistic tonight than it was earlier today, now putting the chances at greater than 50%. with the prospect of his first government shutdown looming, president trump dispatched his budget director to start making plans for the worst. and b is preparing for what we are calling a shutdown. the nickname schumer shutdown is an effort by the white house to deflect any responsibility if the deadline hits with no agreement. mick mulvaney pointing out there s nothing in the temporary spending bill that the democrats oppose. they are for extension for the chip program. many of them support the delay for the taxes, the medical tax, the cadillac tax, they do not oppose anything in the bill, but they are opposing the bill. what the democrats want is for the continuing resolution to address the plight of the
cadillac tax, medical device, ballistic missile defense. if you want to vote against all that, i guess you can. some conservatives in the house freedom caucus are hoping they can negotiate a better deal. here is the proposal they are floating. congressman jordan s plan that he put out about funding the military for a full year, along with a cr for the balance seemed to get overwhelming support of our members. that may appeal to the national security hawks but it may also complicate matters with democrats who, of course, want more spending on domestic priorities. i don t know why he is whispering. what are democrats saying at this stage? they are saying the idea of another four-week extension is a lousy idea. the fourth stopgap measure since october 1. they are pushing for immigration now. here is a sample of their side of the story. there is no reason that any
december. it was extended now to january. now they re looking at extending it to february 19th. it d extend the chip program for six years. this is something we talk about a lot. it suspends obama s medical device tax, can cadillac tax, and the health insurance tax. it does not include a solution to the expiring daca program, which democrats are demanding as part of the spending bill. vermont senator patrick leahy joins us now. senator, good morning and welcome. there s so much talk of a government shutdown. the president is saying democrats are standing in the way. republicans control the votes. is the president correct in trying to make the argument that it is democrats? they don t need you. no, it s not correct. before i go to that, listening to nick ackerman earlier, as a former prosecutor, everything he says is absolutely right. i ve been there. i know what that s like.
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