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>> 115 billion dollars. >> greta: if that is not spent, then of course it hasn't been over evaluated. that's a discretionary number, right? >> but we know it is going to be spent. >> greta: certain? >> your doggone right. every time the cbo comes out with a number it is always more. it isn't because they are not trying. it is because they generally haven't got all the facts or the nature of the beast that it always cost more. i've never seen them save any money yet. >> greta: senator, thank you. here's what is coming up on the o'reilly factor. bill: more ethic confrontations over the new arizo...

Necessary. that's impossible to estimate, but will surely add to the cost which brought some "i told you so" from republicans. >> the healthcare bill is now expected to cost $115 billion more than the administration said it would. wiping out every saving they claim it would produce. >> reporter: the first cost was $938 billion for mandatory spending to reduce the deficit by $143 billion, though it included some unrelated savings in student loan programs. though that will not change, the discretionary spending makes healthcare more expensive but by how much is not certain. >> yesterday's report...

Can't have the federal government involved and have it cost less. that just flies in the face of reality. >> well, that's basic common sense. the irony is peter orszag's defense, the o.m.b. director defense of this is this is money that congress wants to spend, not necessarily money that congress will spend. who thinks that congress isn't going to spend this money? i understand that there are sometimes things that are authorized that are not, we don't actually see congress pay for in the end. but the reality of it is congress is going to spend this money and it's going to spend far more money....

>> greta: hold your breathe and count to 115 billion. according to cbo the health care bill could cost 150 billion dollars more than the government originally thought. that makes the tkpwrpbtd total more than one trillion. republican senator orrin hatch who has been protesting that price tag for more than a year guess on the record. nice to see you -- year goes on the record. nice to see you. i have this letter from the congressional budget office to member -- to ranking member on the appropriations about scoring the federal health care bill we an update on it. huge 115 billion dollars over 10...

Than a trillion now it is 115 billion dollars more so it is over a trillion. i might add there are all kinds of other costs they are not talking about here as well. the budget has been -- double in five years and triple in 10 years under the obama administration. health care is going to be one of the major reasons. >> greta: i read an article in the associated press asking the cbo why suddenly the 115 billion dollar number now? the associated process the cbo says the reason they didn't tell us before is they didn't have enough time. >> they wanted to get this bill passed. >> greta: meaning the...