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Itself probably in about 10 years. >> you look at this in the cost of illegal immigration vary state by state and pick up a lot of the cuts in welfare program, social programs in california the biggest in 23 billion. texas 11 billion coming year to seven-point, new jersey 4.5. you think about california, new york, new jersey. all states with incredibly high state taxes. pull up the cost of illegal immigration with this wall. you the opportunity for state taxes to go down? >> i can imagine the st...

You are taking that contribution away from the economy and these people are going to wal-mart. they are buying gas. they are buying clothes. they are going to supermarkets and they are stimulating local and national economy. >> tucker: so you are speaking in generalizations and, again, i actually ghir. >admire. these are the rates of welfare use by country. these are families that are using at least one welfare program in the united states from central and south american immigrants its 73%. >> c...

♪ >> bret: should able-bodied people receive medicaid benefits from taxpayers required to work for those benefits. the trump administration says yes. many lawmakers and others disagree. heres correspondent doug mckelway. >> in a letter to the state medicaid directors, the trump administration announced plans to test a work requirement for healthy medicaid beneficiaries. to some, it hearkens back to welfare reform of the 1990s. >> i think its a recognition that after all, medicaid is in effect ...

Good domestic demand domestic agenda. one of the thing that the president said is that they know that they needed to continue to do the job of selling tax reform to the american people. >> they need to continue to do that, they have not done that great of a job until now, but i do think as the economy continues to improve and the effects of the tax bill are felt by households, i think that that job gets even easier. look, i understand that it is tough with the 60 vote threshold to try to make pr...

Was, gee, this is the thing he wanted most in life was tax reform. and thats probably true. but there are a number of other issues which the speaker has been very involved in. one is very dear to his heart, reform the welfare program, so they arent given higher taxes because of the welfare system that exists in country and tax system. so part of that is being handled through the tax reform. another has to be handled through welfare reform which the speaker is very involved in and wants to look a...

Of senators? >> i think it is like this, democrats and the people in the insurance industry, the people in the health care industry, want to more welfare payments on health insurance. that is what medicaid is. it is not an insurance program per se, but it is a welfare program, that provides coverage from the federal government to help poor people, but under obamacare, they bumped it up to the middle class. they expanded eligibility. after a decade, thats money under this legislation goes away. r...

Health care reform bill will come from pennsylvania senator pat toomey seeking to cap the growth rate of medicaid spending. >> we are going to make sure that as medicaid continues to grow, it grows at a pace that our economy can afford. rather than the out-of-control growth we have had. by doing that, we make the program sustainable indefinitely. >> toomey says what happened with medicaid was mission creep. >> a tiny percentage of americans when it was first launched. today its over 20% of ameri...

Health care reform bill will come from pennsylvania senator pat toomey seeking to cap the growth rate of medicaid spending. >> we are going to make sure that as medicaid continues to grow, it grows at a pace that our economy can afford. rather than the out-of-control growth we have had. by doing that, we make the program sustainable indefinitely. >> toomey says what happened with medicaid was mission creep. >> a tiny percentage of americans when it was first launched. today its over 20% of ameri...

Be taxed into getting insurance. >> im in medicaids welfare program. >> and its exploding. heres the thing, they think look at all this coverage, people in medicaid dont like medicaid. we dont even discuss and debate it. i like this idea, repeal the thing, give 12 months to the private sector those 20 milli- people are likely to have good health care. >> i spacer on the other day and i said what are we gonna do and he said face too. let me talk to you about the russian, obama collusion angle. th...

>> im in medicaids welfare program. >> and its exploding. heres the thing, they think look at all this coverage, people in medicaid dont like medicaid. we dont even discuss and debate it. i like this idea, repeal the thing, give 12 months to the private sector those 20 milli- people are likely to have good health care. >> i spacer on the other day and i said what are we gonna do and he said face too. let me talk to you about the russian, obama collusion angle. this is something you been talking ...