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State appointed, unundersecretary of five, no assistant secretaries reported. and we're in with the end of june, we've never had a situation like this. and, omb is calling, president trump is calling for a one third budget cut that would decimate american diplomacy. and as i have been on the hill and i've testified on the budget issue, it's hard to find a single republican on the hill who believes we should cut the state department and aib budget by 31%. it doesn't make sense in the modern world to do that to ourselves. so he has a lot of challenges. i wish him well, because he's a very impres...

Starving, going to do that. my point with let's say the food stamp, the snap program, if 44 million are getting this for food or not, we have bigger problems than just the budget issue. >> absolutely. let me tell you something. the biggest single to threat to life is income and equality. you let that gap get wide enough as it did in cuba, as it did in argentina, venezuela, people will go for the most likely root to give them what they want. okay? we can't afford -- now the gap is as much in effect as it is a course, a problem. the effect of it is, is the effect a bad education in america in pu...

As part of that. you know, this system is just not working. it's the -- the individual market is collapsing and has been. >> so why not fix those market issues? >> well -- >> why not do the fixes rather than taking medicaid expansion, slashing it and addressing pre-existing conditions by basically saying it's not a requirement. insurers can up the price and price it out of the market for people. >> i think the goal should be to include people in this system who aren't in it yet, to give people more choices, to create more competition. i don't talk to anybody who doesn't believe there has to be...

A trillion dollars, the only addition that is significant health care coverage, under obamacare are people who got expanded medicaid as part of that the system is not working. the individual market is collapsing and has been. >> why not fix those market issues? why not do the fixes, rather than taking medicaid and slashing it, and addressing pre-existing conditions by basically saying it is not a requirement. insurers can price it out of the market for people? >> the goal should be to include people in the system that aren't in it yet. to give more choices to create competition. i don't talk t...

Hour workweek, just the 50 employees, so many small businesses that people are now having to work two part-time jobs because they can't add people to the work. they can't continue to expand. this is going to change from business to health care and help move the economy. if somebody has a better idea, this is the legislative process. we're moving it through the house. the senate is a legislative body. they will be able to do what they want with the bill and then we can go to conference. so if there's any other ideas that people have, bring it forward. because the one thing we do know, day after...