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>> we're heading in the wrong direction. we're not broke yet. international investors are still willing to buy our government debt at very low interest rates. there is no cash flow issue. we're not at a greek-style fiscal crisis yet. >> reporter: despite the troubling finances the united states can pay its bills. congress so far has given the government to go out and borrow money and the country found willing investors to borrow money from it at pretty reasonable rates. technically, jenna, the united states is not broke but though as budget analysts and conceivably anyone who grasps basic math...

>> so 30 million more people going into a program we cannot pay for. that gives you on -- some idea what we're facing jane and why budget analysts get the chills when they look at medicare's financing. jane: healthcare reform bills in the house and senate were going to take about 500 billion dollars out of medicare. what effect would that have had? >> reporter: well, if that money had stayed in medicare it might help but instead it would be used to pay for other things in health care reform. including creation of new entitlement permanent subsidies for health insurance. listen. >> if you take ...

Bipartisan infrastructure bill, they're starting to draft a bill. they hope to have something together by the end of this week, and then they have to go get it scored, which means the budget analysts have to look at it and say, yes, it's going to do what it says it does. that brings up peter's point. there may be some games on how they assess the revenue impact of this legislation. so, you know, republicans who want a bipartisan deal can focus on that and say when it comes to this other package, when it comes to the soft human infrastructure, that we're not going to be with you, but when it co...

Whether this plan will create enough growth to then pay for itself to make up for what it adds to the deficit. >> reporter: yeah, speaker ryan said nobody knows how much this will add to the deficit, david, because, quote, that is in the future. well, nonpartisan congressional budget analysts, they've got a prediction. they say this tax plan increases the deficit by nearly 1.5 trillion, with a t, david, trillion dollars over the next decade. >> all right, cecilia vega leading us off tonight. thank you, cecilia. and one more headline about the tax plan passing congress. corporate america alre...