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Of at least $1.5 trillion, but by many nonpartisan estimates, as much as $2.2 trillion if you take away the gimmicks to just get it under that budget ceiling for now. >> well, it doesn't take much in economic growth to offset both of those numbers. if we get back to the 70-year average of 3.2% growth instead of the obama year average of less than 2, we're up to 3 already. we're anticipating in this bill 2.6. every tenth of a percent of growth there makes a huge difference in federal revenue. if you believe tax policy has economic consequences, you don't statically score that, you score that ba...

Budget ceiling and somewhere between now and then they are probably going to have to do more disaster relief. i think they would've been more comfortable with this deal if two things had happened. if they had a longer -- not a three month deal but a six month deal, nine-month deal, 13 month deal. the second and probably almost as important is members of congress do not like to be surprised by the president of their party. this was a surprise. sitting in a room with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, the president makes a decision that he had to know was not going to make the people on his side of...

Issues issuesissues. the budget ceiling, tax bill. but hopefully this is a new phase after seven months of donald trump saying it's my way or the highway. it's the rule of trump, not the rule of law. maybe we are moving on to a new era where the senate exerts its constitutional powers and lets the executive wait for the united states to dispose. the president can propose but now the senate seems to begin to understand and work towards having us exercise our prerogatives as well. >> is so how do you reconcile this suggested move away from what you could call tragic comedy and towards comity, an...

Thought on that. >> i do. ted cruz is on one of the most shows yesterday pointing out since 1978, there have been 55 budget ceiling increases, 55 and of those, more than half had legislation passed. more than half of the 55 have had exactly what the republicans have been doing this time around and look. meanwhile, the context, we can't i go for -- ignore it, there's a piece about how people in california are paying between $2,000 and $10,000 for their health care coverage. just went up by that much. that's a shock to the system that i think, again, gives the republicans a lot of hope that even...

Willing to negotiate, which is how these kinds of disputes are always settled. >> is the house conference united, steve? >> no, no, when i talk to republicans, there is incredible diversity of opinion, and i think when you try to decide who is to blame for this shutdown, you can say the republicans wanted it. i think that's unfair. i think it's fair to say some of the republicans misjudged their opponents. they assumed the democrats would cave. they were wrong. when i talk to republicans, the republican who, to me, seems to have the best notion of what is on the democrats' mind, believe it or ...