Senate investigators after revelations that he met with members of fusion gps. Reaction to those stories in just a second. But, first, Congress Avoids a government shut down by passing a spending bill. But it is setting up major legislative battle in january. Ed henry is in washington tonight with all the details. Ed . Kimberly great to see. The key here passing temporary budget doesnt just keep the government open it paves the way for President Trump to sign the tax cut into law with a senior official telling us tonight there is a very good chance that will happen tomorrow. The way the tax package was written signing it this year would initially have meant that it triggered some automatic spending cuts next year. But this continuing resolution, the stop gap budget just passed through the house and senate, includes waivers that enable the president to defer those cuts to entitlements until 2019. The president also made clear he did not want a messy shut down to overshadow the winning o
Revelations that he met with members of fusion gps. Reaction to those stories in just a second. But, first, Congress Avoids a government shut down by passing a spending bill. But it is setting up major a legislative battle in january. Ed henry is in washington tonight with all the details. Ed . Kimberly, great to see you. The key here passing temporary budget doesnt just keep the government open, it paves the way for President Trump to sign the tax cut into law, with a senior official telling us tonight there is a very good chance that will happen tomorrow. The way the tax package was written, signing it this year would initially have meant that it triggered some automatic spending cuts next year. But this continuing resolution, the stop gap budget, just passed through the house and senate, includes waivers that enable the president to defer those cuts to entitlements until 2019. The president also made p clear he did not want a messy shutdown to overshadow the winning on taxes saying
Monster that was created. The republican creed dough can be summed up this way. Help the rich, hurt the middle class. So ironically senator Bernie Sanders fought back in odd way, taking if out on a small school that helps poor families send kids to college in Mitch Mcconnells home state. Heres what happened. In the bill there was a tax hike on wealthy universities like harvard, sanford, and yale. They would all now have to pay taxes on the gains from enormous endowment. Harvard is 35 billion for example. Stanford is 2 billion. But the law swept in little Berea College in kentucky as well. Endowment 1. 2 billion. Berea is one of seven work schools in the state, tuition is free. But the students work on campus during their four years. The College President says they were a casualty of the bill. And that will be tough on students. Mitch mcconnell tried in desperation to turn it around. He was not successful in doing that. Bernie sanders said no way. Majority leader mcconnell joins me now.
Out Prescription Drugs. I understand he had a nickname in the white house among the white house staff. It was the candy man because he handed out Prescription Drugs like they were candy. It really is important to note that right now these are just allegations, albeit from multiple sources but it is not clear if they are true. What is it appear clear is that this white house did not know about any of these allegations when the president announced dr. Jacksons nomination on twitter . It begs the question, is there any vetting at all when picking people for the top posts in this administration . This morning the president is standing by the nominee we think. Abby phillip at the white house for us. Its interesting, the president sort of hung dr. Jackson out to dry yesterday and overnight unhung him out to dry if thats such a thing . Reporter that seems like the way these things go in this white house. President trump saying one thing publicly and privately saying another, but there is no q
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