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Women, teenagers and children. >> it's a humanitarian need and the united states should be out there try to help. >> spresident trump once again threatening to send the military to the border. >> not just the national guard, the military is what i am thinking about. >> the president also touting his new promise to impose a 10% tax cut for the middle class. >> we are putting in a resolution this week. >> the president telling "the wall street journal" the plan will be revenue neutral. the national deficit has ballooned to $779 billion fueled in large part by the first round

Tax cut. and president trump is also pushing these tax cuts at a time when the republicans are coming under scrutiny for soaring deficits, hitting about $779 billion over the next six years, but also congress is not in session. the chances of tax cuts passing before the midterm elections are slim to none, john and alisyn. president trump also hitting the road again today and tomorrow before the midterms. >> actually, the chances are none to none. congress isn't there to pass a tax cut. >> i think what the president is saying is that he's going to talk about his tax cut. >> which he did. >> rig...

The original $1.5 trillion is ballooning the deficit. swelling 17% in 2018 to $779 billion. the highest in six years. insiders say this is a campaign talking point. >> no need to speculate. it is a blatant lie. >> two weeks before the midterms. >> no plan. >> the president wants to remind people he cut taxes and he wants the middle class to think he can do more. >> if he wanted this tax cut, he had 18 months to get it through. we all know what this is and i'm certain the crowd knows what this is. nancy pelosi says democrats will use subpoena powers strategically if they take the house. and a...

The treasury department has the deficit's $779 billion. it's projected to hit $1 trillion in 2020. the only way to offset that as a result of tax cuts would be if the amazing growth that the president talks about that would be unleashed were to happen. how do we evaluate that? >> well, there's no prospect that that's going to happen. every single forecaster evaluating the bill when it was being considered by the congress said it was going to lose money, increase the deficit, over the long one. only the trump administration, the president himself, the treasury secretary, gary cohn, was saying n...

Here is the problem. there is no chance of any plan passing before then. congress is in recess through the election. even after it is unlikely to pass after the lame duck session. many critics say it helped corporate america, not the middle class which trump acknowledged saturday adding the new plan would not be for businesses at all. the original $1.5 trillion tax cut is ballooning the deficit. the deficit rose to $779 billion. the highest in six years. >> a lot of mystery there. congress not talking about this. >> congress is not talking about it. the president has talked about it before. he...