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So that's one thing a number of republicans have certainly said is, look, we don't have to default on the debt. we have more than enough money to pay the interest payments. we don't have to have the financial calamity. the only problem is if you do that, what are you not paying? are you going to delay social security checks or not going to pay health care providers for medicare? are you going to miss veterans benefits? there are all these things that the government has to pay out. and if it's making interest payments on the debt to try to avoid a crisis, it has to stop paying a bunch of other ...

On the tax side, he's created a tax reform plan. he hasn't said how he'll pay for it. but the distance between where he says he is and where he needs to be is $2.6 trillion. it looks right now as essentially a large transfer in which largely health care for poor people is paying for tax cuts, deficit reduction and increased defense spending. >> your paper did an analysis that i think does exactly what a lot of us was hoping would get done. you talked about the real-life potential impact. for example, if the cuts were made to air traffic controllers, more flights would be canceled, delaying mor...