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Or getting the tax cuts. >> what's most important getting the economy growing. greg: that means tax cuts? >> tax relief. also an idea that the budget window can be moved to 10 years to 20 years. it's an attractive option to allow us to do that. we are focused on getting americans back to work. that's why unemployment today because of regulatory relief the president has provided is down 4.3%. the lowest it's been in 16 years. greg: i want to ask you the president's tweets it's not necessarily in your wheel house but cross in your area because you have to deal with folks on capitol hill who are ...

>> what's most important getting the economy growing. greg: that means tax cuts? >> tax relief. also an idea that the budget window can be moved to 10 years to 20 years. it's an attractive option to allow us to do that. we are focused on getting americans back to work. that's why unemployment today because of regulatory relief the president has provided is down 4.3%. the lowest it's been in 16 years. greg: i want to ask you the president's tweets it's not necessarily in your wheel house but cross in your area because you have to deal with folks on capitol hill who are very of rolling their eye...

The budget is hardwired by the congressional budget office to go up every single year. if they say we spend $100 last year and we were supposed to spend $106 this year, anything less than 107 is a cut. i've heard 106 referred to as a freeze because it stays in line with the congressional budget office. a classic example of how washington speaks differently than the world back home. there are no medicaid cuts and the terms of what ordinary human beings were returned to as a cut. when we are doing is growing medicaid more slowly over the 10-year budget window then the cbo says we should or says ...

Expected impact of the legislation not just on the american people broadly but also on the deficit. that earlier cbo score of an earlier version of the bill said that 24 million people would be without health insurance coverage by 2026. some are saying that this latest -- this new cbo score that's expected in the next couple of weeks could show that even more millions of americans would lose health insurance coverage, but the reason this is important for the senate is that that cbo score will let them know the impact on the deficit and the senate is trying to pass their version of this bill wi...

George w. bush lowered tax rates, we had tax reform both in 2001 and 2003. you'll remember at the end of those ten years, those tax rates were set to expire. i believe it is important that we give people and businesses the certainty beyond this ten-year budget window and the way we do that is getting to budget neutrality so that those rates stay in place. that's my goal as we move forward with tax reform? maria: where does that revenue come from? if you don't have a bored adjustment, how do you make that revenue up? >> that's all part of the discussion that we are having as we are moving forwa...