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Democrats are also weakening our confidence in elections as well. back to the midterm elections, this looks to be very bad for democrats. its a year out, its a long times but joe bidens numbers continue to go down, down, down, and democrats are increasingly nervous about a house pickup for republicans and potentially a senate as well. >> doug hyde, kirsten powers we have to leave it there. obviously a conversation we are not done. thank you both. a paraplegic man is pulled violently from his c...

Struggling after a period where they had been inside. of course we respond to that. as rachel reeves set out, she speaks to us on treasury and financial issues. anything we propose must be costed. british people need to know where the money is coming from, we are absolutely clear about that. the official waiting _ absolutely clear about that. the official waiting list for nhs mental health care remains at... you are going to say people will have treatment in a month. hoot going to say people wil...

Issue that we have with the trade deficit, making sure that u.s. companies can compete fairly. and the president will talk a lot about his economic program and the impact on the global economy. >> thank you, mr. secretary. staying with trade, with you give us an update on the negotiations over nafta and how concerned is this administration over the fact that canada has rerently made ha complaint to wto and mexico is concerned this administration will in short order withdraw from nafta? >> we gav...

We will encourage taxpayers to use the calculator when it is released and will launch a marketing effort to make sure people understand that. finally, id like to say that the treasury and irs will work together to release a new w 4 for 2019. we expect that later in the year. we will be meeting with employers, payroll providers to design how best to reflect the form for the new law. and the irs will continue to focus on simplification and user friendly process. these new tables will help deliver ...

Yes? >> thank you, mr. secretary. you are using an out dated or the system will hughes an out dated w-4 form for this year. you will encourage people to go onto a calculator on the irs website to try to figure things out. taxes are messy to begin with. how is this not going to lead to in one way or another some sort of implementation mess? >> well, you know, i give an enormous amount of credit to the team at treasury and irs working around the clock through the holidays. you mention we had an ex...

Encourage and make sure that taxpayers understand how to go on to the calculator once its up and running, well do education sessions, so that taxpayers are properly withheld. >> are you expecting any new sanctions on iran to come from the treasury? >> i am expecting new sanctions on iran. we continue to look at them. we have rolled them out. and i think you can expect there will be more sanctions coming up. >> thank you, mr. secretary. leaders in some states, connect, new jersey are talking abou...

Treasurys office of tax policy and the irs who worked around the clock to meet our important objective to work with the existing forms and the existing systems. we want to minimize the burden on both employers and hard working taxpayers in getting this implemented in february. this is just the first step in a three-step process. next the irs will be releasing a new withholding calculator that will be available on irs.gov by the end of february. this will help provide individuals with certainty s...