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Obamacare under reconciliation. that means theyll only need 51 votes instead of the normal 60, something they failed to do already. repealing obamacare has been priority for this president and his administration may try to find ways to undermine it while they search for ways to get rid of it. health and human services says obamacares advertising budget would be cut from $100 million to $10 million next year. and that the budget for navigators who help sign people up for insurance would be cut fr...

And everybody said kentucky is the model state for implementing obamacare. matt bevin got elected governor. trump and rand paul got elected both running on repealing it obamacare. thing projection of electoral calamity saying theyre going to be tarred with the vote and its going to cost them their seats. this is what democrats want republicans to believe. theres not a shred of evidence that following through on a campaign promise that led to republican majorities in congress is going to cost any...

Attack and bring to justice those who are responsible. well provide you with other updates as warranted and a readout of the presidents call with the politirime minister. the president and also an event attended by the vice president and health and human services dr. tom price. officials have seen the challenges of implementing obamacare firsthand and we continue to consider and enact policies like the american health care act that makes it more affordable for everyone. the women there represent...

Over a promise made more than six years ago to replace president obamas health care law. cnns manu raju is live for us on capitol hill. manu, republicans passed an obamacare repeal with a democratic president. why so much trouble getting done with president trump waiting to proudly display a brand-new law for the cameras? >> reporter: well, jake, a lot of concerns from conservatives over the details. including a center piece of the plan to give refundable tax credits for people to buy health ins...

The cost of health insurance for everyone. but were not just going along with whatever they try to shove down our throats. were going to be a big part of this. conservatives will be listened to or there wont be a repeal. >> and one of the issues here, of course, is that in order to help those who right now have insurance through the medicaid expansion or perhaps have it because of the stipends that some people get through the obamacare exchanges, some republicans in congress have proposed tax cr...

Some top republicans say that falls short. >> there is not enough. there is not nearly enough, and it simply will not take care of the issues and challenges we have. for example, half the f-18s are now grounded for lack of parts, and we have increased operations both in syria and afghanistan. >> reporter: and new push back from house conservatives. now threatening to derail gop plans to repeal and replace obamacare. youll vote against this plan if it were to come up? >> i have big concerns, i th...

Conway who would have been the young handsome up and coming democrat of kentucky because he lost to tea party candidate matt bevan. despite the happy story that democrat will tell about implementing obamacare in kentucky, there are still gaps in communicating with that voting community. >> mary catherine, ruth, jeff, thank you so much. he says the only way to deal with obamacare is a full repeal and replace, not changing it piece by piece. so, what does kentuckys rand paul think of the current...

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Subcommittee hearing they said the irs customer service was atrocious. >> customer service was far worse than any one would want. not having enough people to answer the phones and provide service for customers. >> the irs appropriated $10.9 billion. the congress appropriated money into the account in order to meet customer service needs. the irs moved that money out and their service was by the commissioners own admission they cut themselves. >> the irs spent more than a billion dollars on imple...

The commissioner was on last night. he had explaining to do here on fox. >> that money wasnt willy-nilly easily moved. we knew it was not going to help taxpayer service. if the filing season had gone badly, this hearing would have been why did you do that why didnt you take money from else where. we had no choice. >> they said yes to unions and no to you. half of phone calls didnt get through. most people who did stayed on the phone for 40 minutes. >> they said hang ups. you wait all this time t...