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>> trish: billions of dollars in unpaid bills and the threat of a junk credit rating, what do you know, they managed to pass a state budget for the first time in two years, overwriting the governor's veto. instead of cutting spending, the republicans joined democrats in voting to increase the individual income tax by 32%. and the corporate income tax rates by 33%, just tax them more, right? democratic strategist and republican strategist, good to have you both here, is this a solution? you just ask people more? >> well, this isn't illinois first time doing this, and i will tell you, back in 20...

Problem. it seems like that's the last step here. i don't think that's a good process. i'm going to demand the information before i make my decision. >> senator, there are people like governor john kasich who said they can't afford the lose the medicaid roll back. do you believe if it passes with the rollback all the people covered now will somehow get coverage inbetween, the people including people in your family who require opioid coverage? >> well, willie, i come from the private sector. i've been here six years. i have yet to see a problem where we have a hearing and a solution from a gove...

In turkey or viking textiles in iceland. and here is the best one. $700,000 spent by that organization to create a musical on climate change. a musical. so the democrats lose legitimacy when they can't even say that one or two pieces of this need to be cut and that's appropriate. so they go to the republicans. guess what, some republicans are very critical of it. they say d.o.a., dead on arrival. >> any time you have a budget where you are cutting spending. you can go to potential victims. but at same time there is another side to this. the taxpayers have to pay for all this stuff. i think tha...

Things like the fashion industry in turkey or viking textiles in iceland. and here is the best one. $700,000 spent by that organization to create a musical on climate change. a musical. so the democrats lose legitimacy when they can't even say that one or two pieces of this need to be cut and that's appropriate. so they go to the republicans. guess what, some republicans are very critical of it. they say d.o.a., dead on arrival. >> any time you have a budget where you are cutting spending. you can go to potential victims. but at same time there is another side to this. the taxpayers have to pa...

Dollar increase to those parts of the budget. losers, medicaid, something donald trump said he wouldn't touch. welfare programs going down. other nondefense spending. we're seeing a $500 billion increase in spending on the page i just showed you versus a $3.3 trillion cut over ten years in this sort of spending. so these are the winners and losers. now, here is the issue. they are looking at balancing the budget. the idea that you spend only as much as you take in in a given year and you don't run deficits. the way they will do this is through cutting spending, through slashing taxes, we have ...