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Reauthorized. you could say it stops in ten years. no, it has to be reauthorized. his concern that folks will be kicked off coverage is not a concern. >> martha: let's put up the fact-check that we put together to take a look at with you tonight. $243 billion in cuts, is that number true? >> i don't have the exact total. let me say, we spend less than obamacare. we repeal the penalties, the individual mandate penalties where the federal government tells people, if you don't purchase insurance, we are going to penalize you. turns out, at 60% of those folks, 60% of the people who pay that penalt...

Billion. so is it worth it? democratic strategist jessica tarloff says absolutely not. you don't thing k so? >> how could it be worth it? >> all the services that go into feeding illegals, housing illegals, rounding them up when they commit crimes, pushing them back and forth, all the jobs that tear taking. i think 66 billion would be a drop in the pocket. >> 166 billion is a very low estimate. >> i thought it was high. cbo says 243 billion. >> when you think that everyone has to get a trial, they're entitled to an advocate, that the average deportation -- >> we're talking about the wall speci...

The cbo earlier this year of how higher interest rates would effect deficits in the next ten years. if ten year treasury notes stay at the baseline average of 5.2%, a one year payment on just the interest on the national debt will rise from 243 billion in 2014 to a one year payment of $857 billion by 2023. now, if interest rates were to stick to their averages in the 1990s, when rates on ten year treasury notes averaged 6.7%, the additional costs would be a little over $1 trillion in 2023. but take a look at this. if interest rates were to rise to the averages from the 1980s, when the rates on...

Our national security and must be replaced. the house passed the bill in may that replaces the president's dangerous defense sequester with common sense spending cuts and reforms, protecting our troops and reducing our deficit by another $243 billion. but the white house wants to make sure that if the sequester takes effect at the end of the year and there is blame going around, it isn't just directed at democrats. >> sequester was designed to be bad policy, to be onerus and it's important to remember that democrats and republicans voted in majorities in both houses of congress in support of t...

Other half to domestic programs. now the speaker of the house john boehner says the house passed a bill in may that replaces the president's dangerous defense sequester with common sense spending cuts and reforms protecting our troops and reducing our deficit by another $243 billion. but, with only a few months before they're scheduled to go into effect. president obama and senate democrats have taken no action whatsoever to averlt these cuts. one of those democrats, the chair of the senate armed services committee, carl levin says the need for members of congress to compromise on a plan that ...