Page 43 - 72 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Republicans. >> very quickly, on medicaid cuts, the house bill that narrowly passed, the cbo estimated it would cut by $800 billion over a decade. the senate legislation, the kprrcbo now says $770 -- $772 billion cut over the next ten years. i asked the question because the president has promised during the campaign that he would not cut medicaid at all. >> reporter: yeah, look, republicans will say this is a reduction on spending on the current baseline and therefore it is not a cut. but it is a change in how much money would be spent over the course of the next decade. it is also worth notin...

Uninsured. remember, candidate trump saying no cuts to medicaid. well, that program sees $772 billion of cuts over the next ten years. democrats expected on the senate floor to protest the bill later this hour and plan to go way into the night. it's not only democrats. one prominent republican senator said about 22 million potentially losing insurance. >> obviously it's not good news. so there will have to be a factor. >> are you against it? >> it's too early. >> even before the cbo score, at least five republicans opposing a bill meaning it is dead in the current form. president trump taking ...

Out those tax breaks so those companies started moving out and no amount of money could keep the country from going flaccid. >> we're in the midst of a serious financial crisis and the federal government is responding with decisive action. >> federal government policy encouraged puerto rico to do what federal government policy encouraged broke ass college students to do -- borrow more money. just like a person with an english degree making you a mocha, the debt got so big puerto rico couldn't pay it back. now it's a stupefying $72 billion. i'd hate to be the guy who has to solve ta problem. so...

The senate republican health care bill. senate democrats planning to protest the bill deep into the night. late today the congressional budget office predicting it will cause 22 million people to lose health care by 2026. the cbo finding medicaid spending will be cut by $772 billion by 2026. this weekend before that projection came out trump adviser kellyanne conway saying this about whether it cuts medicaid spending. >> these are not cuts for medicaid. it slows the rate. it allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars. you keep calling them cuts but we don't see them as cuts. getti...

More every year. >> this really sticks the knife in all these republican governors especially all over the midwest people like john kasich, people like rick snyder, my home state of michigan. people who have taken the medicaid expansion, gotten the folks in their states who are working class, lower working class. they're expecting to be on medicaid and they're not going to pull the rug out from under neems and what's going to happen is they're going to force the governors to have to make choices inside their own state budgets. so the governors have to take medicaid away from people or they hav...