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Entitlement programs have to be reformed. they have to be saved. but donald trump says hes not going to, not going to touch them. so, yeah, its unbelievable. and youre right. what did everybody say, katty, about the tax cuts, they were talking about you dont cut taxes when you have full employment. you dont cut taxes when the economy is doing well. you dont overheat the economy. the republicans didnt listen. donald trump didnt listen. guess what, the markets collapsing now. and its collapsing be...

Fund medicare, medicaid, and interest on the debt. we borrow everything else we spend on and guess what? about 10%, 11% of the budget are those programs that congress talks about cutting. the rest are entitlement programs, defense and interest on the debt. so lets bring in one of the house democrats kasie was just talking about, congressman brendan boyle of pennsylvania who serves on the budget committee. congressman, we could talk about saving the republic and entitlement spending, instead lets...

Justin amas, he said this spending proposal is disgusting and reckless. the biggest spending increase since 2009. i urge every american to speak out against this fiscal insanity. hes not the only one. the house freedom caucus does not support it, saying official position. hsc opposes the bill. growing the government by 13% is not what the people sent us to do. spending is easy. cutting is harder. do you think that republicans will have to swallow that and get this done? >> look, i dont know of a...

Are struggling to understand the rationale in terms of the timing of these tax cuts in a time when were almost near full employment where we should be using the money to plug that deficit gap but there is one explanation that some democrats provide and that is that you want to actually force these cuts to touching that third rail to put us in a situation where we have to make these drastic cuts to these entitlement programs. can you please speak to that question? >> look, that is extreme hyperbo...

Steve: ultimately, the obama legacy to the military? >> very much so. steve: smaller government. >> smaller military and bigger government. gutted militaries to pay for their welfare state because eventually you have to pay for it our entitlement programs are out of control as a result the only place in the budget can you get can discretionary which is a big portion of of which is the pentagon. they go straight to the pentagon. the president is right to talk about the military and prioritize the...

>> who tend to not be considered essential. >> those people will lose their paychecks, and to the point marc short made earlier, these agencies are actually making a lot of policy right now, you know, cms just made this decision about shifting the way it dealt with medicaid. that will stop, you know, the irs will not be able to sort of figure out all the rules and regulations it needs to implement the tax code, so those sorts of things will be put on hold if theres a shutdown. >> peter -- go ahe...

Its unfortunate when i get a hang nail, a run in my stockings. this is not unfortunate. its outrageous. this is a man who has been proimmigration his life. now trying to play it down. >> let me go to joy on this. i think everything paul ryan hears or thinks has to do with his agenda. its not personal. its all about this ian rand objectivist goals he has. less taxes, less entitlement programs. thats his goal in life. anything that advances it is fortunate. anything that doesnt is unfortunate. he ...

Who makes a rational decision to stay home, she may have more money coming in to her via the state, via the federal government, than if she were to go to work and to have pay for daycare and pay for gas et cetera, et cetera, and be aware from her kids. steeples me there should be some kind of in between system, governor, where were doing what we can to help people to help themselves. and in this one way, via the medicaid reform, a way of doing that? >> absolutely. and its interesting, this is th...

Of the we passed obamacare, after we passed dodd frank, we suddenly had two million, almost three million new jobs every year. >> trish: talk about obamacare, this from some one whos fiscally conservative, youre still concerned about the deficit but want more entitlement programs. doesnt make any sense. >> im not talking about -- did i say i was for more entitlement programs? im here to preserve medicare and social security. >> trish: you want obamacare. you tell me that obamacare was good for t...

Now, going into next year, youll see a lot of disagreement about how to use that momentum going into the midterm elections of 2018. on the house side, paul ryan would like to go after entitlement programs and reform those in a way that saves the government money. but mitch mcconnell is really worried about what hell be able to do with the slimmest of possible margins to work with. he has 51 senators. so he would need most likely democratic support for anything he does. and it is unlikely that de...