just in to us here at cnn, despite a threat from president trump, white house spokesman says the subsidies will be made. let's go to manu raju in washington with more. what's the deal. >> reporter: that's right. in fact, the white house has been threatening that they would not actually make these payments to insurers in order to defray those costs that the insurers incur and to subsidize health coverage. what the trump administration is saying is that they will move forward with their august payments. now the one reason why, brooke, they're moving forward thin thi is because of a new analysis from the congressional budget office suggesting that by ending these payments would dramaticicsly lead to an increase in premiums, up to 20% increase in premiums. now also, at the same time, doing so could potentially increase the budget deficit as well as that it could lead to fewer people having coverage. now, the reason why the white