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An ambitious agenda on capitol hill. a sweeping re-write of the tax code. new infrastructure projects. a ninth streupreme court justic and the top goal, a reveal of president obamas signature item, obamacare. >> obamacare repeal resolution will be the first item up in the new year. >> reporter: but republican leaders privately acknowledge it wont be easy. especially repealing the health care law without a clear plan to replace it. and in the aftermath of surging enrollment numbers for obamacare....

>> a top aid says donald trump will repeal a lot of barack obamas executive actions on his first day in office. its not clear which policy the president-elect will change, but trump has been critical of mr. obamas moves on immigration, energy regulation and foreign policy. after trump takes office republicans will start putting in motion an agenda to scrap president barack obama greatest legacy. its going to be a long battle will. >> reporter: for the first time in nearly a dozen years republi...

One of the first orders of business for the next u.s. congress will be revisiting the affordable care act also known as obama care. >> republicans have vowed to scrap the controversial health insurance law if they can get enough democrats to go along. manu raju has the latest. >> reporter: for the first time in nearly a dozen years, republicans will control all of washington. and their plotting an ambitious agenda on capitol hill. a sweeping rewrite of the tax code. new infrastructure projects. ...

The u.n. on settlement restrictions. two other bills will address federal regulations it passed in the last session. manu raju filed this report on what to expect in the incoming congress. >> reporter: for the first time in nearly a dozen years, republicans will control all of washington. and theyre plotting an ambitious agenda on capitol hill. a sweeping rewrite of the tax code. new infrastructure projects. a ninth supreme court justice. and their top goal, a repeal of president barack obamas s...

First month after donald trump takes the oath of office. i would submit to you, there are dozens and dozens of other projects like that. smafrt infrastructure is what im for. >> but in terms of whether or not youre going to get congressional approval for a lot of these smart as you call them infrastructure projects, why is it that republicans are very tepid to get behind this? theyre still talking about sticker shock, whereas democrats are saying, this sounds great. im guessing that if democrats...

He wants to spend a tralian dollars on the infrastructure. he said he would pay for it by cutting wasteful spending. and without cutting useful parts of the budget, social security and medicare. its so interesting. you heard me say this before that business leaders are talking about higher construction costs for infrastructure projects because of title market for skilled labor. interesting, right? theyre talking about how do you find the workers for the infrastructure that could drive up the cos...

Infrastructure projects. they are worried about workers. they see the world different than donald trump. 4.6% unemployment and they worry about paying up or heaven forbid. guest worker programs to do the things that donald trump wants to do to juice the economy. lets talk about tax reform. what does it look like and who p benefits the most? >> tremendous cuts in the individual rate. just about everyone, maybe disproportionately the wealthy. just about everyone gets a cut. what does it mean for t...

Taxation, but instead, he pretended the federal government already has enough money to build the wall and do all the infrastructure projects, because we are a rich country, and he wants to reduce taxes on the rich to keep the rich country. thats next. you totanobodys hurt, new car. but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says theyll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do?

Pause they weren because they werent able to do that. coming up, donald trump almost, he came close, almost told his supporters tonight that his ideas are going to cost a lot of moeny and that his supporters are going to have to pay for those ideas through taxation, but instead, he pretended the federal government already has enough money to build the wall and do all the infrastructure projects, because we are a rich country, and he wants to reduce taxes on the rich to keep the rich country. t...

You know? >> what we think we can do is say were going to bring back -- lets say its $300 million, and we can earmark it and direct it toward infrastructure projects. >> and specifically, in other words, those people that have been hurt the most, the rust belt that got trump elected. >> exactly. >> might that be targeted to those areas first. >> infrastructure bill, you probably need it for different regions. for places that are hurt and economical economically depressed, they will be place well...