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By donald trump. >> this is the traditional republican coalition. another stool of this. a leg of the stool getting kicked out from beneath the jgo. of course they're upset. it's part a disintegration of our allies. on the hill, you saw senator corker tried to get a coalition together to stop the president from imposing the tariffs and now at the same time that these letters, that the reports about the letters are coming out, we see that this trade war is really starting to escalate. just in the past week, we have china clapping back. we have the canada clapping back, and the biggest one of al...

I want to show you how the deficit is a self-inflicted problem. we can show a chart that shows you that the deficit before congress got involved in all of this, over the last few years is going to be $440 billion in the coming fiscal year. which is obviously a significant amount of money. but in the last three years, we've done a number of things, first we have the famous tax bill, $290 billion of which only about 13% goes to the average american, the rest is for wealthy americans and business. we had a bipartisan spending deal that got passed not long ago, increased by more than 10% spending ...

Past the political posturing of my bill, your bill, this bill, congress needs to get together. i know it's a shocking concept but maybe have bipartisan compromise -- >> even with trying to do a bipartisan compromise and patti murray is not negotiating in good faith. it's shutting down right now. there is no attempt on the other side. >> that doesn't mean you give up on bipartisan comp please. you cannot give up on health care for millions. >> let the governor in, go ahead. >> there is a reason why aarp hates this bill. it's because it cuts $290 billion out of health care from what is currently...

Crisis. after we get away from the political posturing, congress needs to get together. i know that's a shocking concept. but maybe have bipartisan koo compromise. [ all talking at once ] >> there is a reason why aarp hate this is bill, it's because it cuts 290 billion dlr$290 biu health care from what is currently stated in current law. >> why is that? because we give the individual and the employer mandate. >> that means you will not be able to cover people. that means 30 million people will be without health care. so let's just see what the congressional budget office says when its scores.

Budget has nearly doubled. doubled from roughly $290 billion to $530 billion. and that is not including the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. $530 billion without them. add those in and we're spending more than $700 billion on our military and wars. now the defense budget is about to be put on a big diet. the outgoing secretary, leon panetta, has already signed on cutting a trillion from the defense budget. and frankly, a lot of people think we should go even lower. my colleague has put together charts that show just how insane american defense spending has gotten, and what the next de...