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Appreciate quickly again while paychecks remain relatively flat. thats whats fueling the disparity right now. >> okay. you also suggest that the two-year budget, which the president just signed, it rolls back some sequester cuts but not ones for low-income households. so where does it cut? >>. >> well, the cuts that it makes -- actually, what it does is it replaces some of the sequester cuts. it replaces, i believe, $65 billion in cuts that would otherwise have occurred in the budget on what we ...

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In the way it was supposed to work gone awry. one of the pride -- i guess points of pride about the american political system, its supposed to protect the rights of minorities. youre not supposed to have a simple majority that can run roughshod. what we have actually seen is that flipped on its head where you have a small minority, a minority of a party that does not control the white house or the senate. this is actual run roughshod and prevented virtually anything from happening. >> youre hitt...

Some of the ugly sweater -- i mean, sequester cuts, but some dems were annoyed the deal did not do enough -- doesnt do a thing to help the million plus americans who long-term unemployment benefits expire next week. talk about a lump of coal. i definitely agree with them on that. we start with nbcs luke russert on the hill. how does it look this vote will break down? >> reporter: it was interesting, krystal, you saw today the final cloture to move the vote forward. you have talked so wonder any ...

>> im a little uneasy that were going to say were going to pay for that extra spending in years 8 and 10 over the next 10 year budget. >> marco rubio came out early against the measure. >> it raises it by $60 billion and it pays it in ten years. over the next years theyll forget it and keep borrowing more. >> warren hatch said he could support it, saying with democrats controlling the white house and the senate, it is the best we can hope for. he is backing it because continuing resolutions are ...

Almost liked the poison. it was clearly a blunder by the president. it was just a complete misreading of the opposition. >> it will eviscerate job-creating investments and education and energy and medical research. >> reporter: the president tried to convince the public that the sequester cuts would be too painful to bear. >> 3w0rder patrol agents will see their hours reduced. fbi agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. >> the president went ...

The auto pilot part of the government. we are permanently asking the federal workers to contribute more to their pensions so the hard-working taxpayers who pay for the pensions dont have to pay as much. thats not a permanent law change. thats not something that is a promise and might happen later. it is happening now. the savings accumulate. if god forbid we have a hillary clinton second term, we would have to change a new law. we are doing permanent law. thats the point i am trying to make. loo...

A lot of talk about a grand bargain for years. the idea that democrats would give on entitlements and republicans give on tax revenues and it never happened because both camps were solidly against it. and so, only when they dispelled the notion of doing anything grand could they find any common ground at all and theres a tiny little patch of common ground that they found and it involves shaving $65 billion off of the sequester cuts. >> right. >> thats helped for 20, 14 and 15 and helpful from my...

Almost liked the poison. it was clearly a blunder by the president. it was just a complete misreading of the opposition. >> job creating investments in education and energy and medical research. >> the president tried to convince the public that the sequester cuts would be too painful to bear. >> border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. f.b.i. agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. >> the president went into full chicken little mod...

Doesnt make up for all those stories were missing about the amazing things women are doing in the world. >> nancy pelosi as speaker of the house did not make one national magazine cover. that is unbelievable to me, anna. >> it is unbelievable. not only are women doing amazing things. we need to talk about that. women are adversely impacted by a lot of the policies weve been talking about. sequester cuts affected more women. more women in poverty. more single wage earners for families. >> they ar...