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600 -- $640 billion in loopholes. you can't find me an economist at any university in this state or anywhere in the united states of america that could justify the last 5 to $600 billion of those tax cuts. why should you get a break for race horses but not get a break for childcare. [ applause ] no, i'm serious. we don't have to punish anybody. for example, for example, we could put every single solitary qualified student in community college as one example for free. there goes that big spend on biden. typical democrat, man, he's outspending my money going to raise my taxes. you could do it wi...

The environment or health care or education, folks, we can afford it. you know why we can afford it, without raising your taxes? i'll tell you why. how many of you did well with that trump tax cut. you know how many tax loopholes are on the law? when reagan was president there were $800 billion worth of tax loopholes. $640 billion in loopholes. you can't find me an economist at any university in this state or anywhere in the united states of america that can justify the last 500 to 600 billion of those tax cuts. why should he get a break for race horses and not get a break for child care, you ...

Can get that passed but here is the problem. you can't pass that $84 billion plus up with the budget caps we have right now. >> maria: right. >> jack: they have got to be removed by the appropriations committee and its got to be done by 1 january. if we don't do it by 1 january that budget goes all the way back to 549 billion, not 640 billion. we lose almost $100 billion. that is an absurdity. we'll never rebuild military unless the congress removes the budget caps so that we can grow the budget. >> maria: we'll be watching that that's obviously very important. general always a pleasure to see...

These very, very tough rules. now, they're going to add a whole lot of complications to that, and i think we're already seeing some of the kickback from the small business groups because of that complexity and fact that so many of their memberships will not be eligible. paul: all right. you mentioned this so-called tax rut for the middle class. they've done it through, they're changing the rates and in some cases people are getting rate cuts at the middle or lower income levels, but they're also including increasing the child credit by $600 per child and adding a parental credit, a non-child d...

A number of other caribbean islands are also in maria's path including the u.s. virgin islands. president trump had planned to visit both u.s. territories to survey the damage left by hurricane irma. that trip now on hold. the senate has improved a defense policy bill that grants the pentagon a $700 billion budget. the measure would provide $640 billion for core military operations such as buying weapons and paying troops and another $60 billion for wartime mission inside afghanistan, iraq, syria and elsewhere. i'm kelly wright. >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." hillary clinton refuses to ac...