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Economic momentum. we have our reporters at the white house and on capitol hill this morning tracking where the negotiations stand. let's start at the white house with cnn's jasmine wright. jasmine, there was a chance for the bipartisan breakthrough president biden was looking for after meeting with senator shelly capato at the white house this week but he rejected her offer. where do things stand now? >> that's right. listen. it is a critical time for president biden as you said, the sides are very far apart and how president biden proceeds could dictate exactly what priorities he is able to ...

>> eric: healthcare costs keep going up for the average american california is pushing to give healthcare to illegal immigrants. liz, what do you think? free healthcare for illegal immigrants in california? >> policies like these it's no wonder california has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. think of it. since 1992 the state has spent $950 billion fighting poverty and what do they have to show for it? they now account for a third of the entire country's welfare recipients. and so here you have the media saying that california lawmakers are doing this to thumb their nose at trum...

Deficit. when trump, the administration, when he became the president, we had a 450 billion dollar deficit. now it's now at 950 billion dollars. david: well, yeah, of course the debt went from 10 to 20 trillion dollars under president obama so things go both ways. >> and tax cuts are good. david: the new platform of the i can -- of the democratic party would raise the corporate taxes and you're in favor of tax cuts, but your party say if they're in power they would raise taxes. >> and the republican platform have things they wouldn't support. i'll tell you what i support. i want to see reasona...

Obamacare because, most of obamacare is not discretionary spending that will be affected by the continuing resolution we're talking about. most of the funding for obamacare is mandatory spending. let's go back to the original 2010 cbo score which was roughly $1,050,000,000,000 for the first 10 years the law would be on the books. 450 was for medicare, medicaid expansion, mandatory spending not affected by the continuing resolution. 450 billion-dollars for so-called exchanges. mandatory spending not affected by the continuing resolution. $50 billion for a small business subsidy, that was so rid...

But we've got to you grow the economy. if you raise taxes on small businesses, you raise taxes on farmers and ranchers in my district, that's going to cripple small businesses. i'm not worried about ge. they've got a seat at the table at the white house. i'm worried about the small guy that's going to get hammered that don't have a lesion of tax attorneys. so i believe we need a fundamental tax reform. i thif the president agrees with that, as well. >> if you're worried about the debt, and i think we have to deal with the debt, according to the congressional budget office, you'd pick up $950 b...