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Still have the same deficit concerns about this bill yet no changes were made about the deficit concerns to appease him. yet he still came out and is, indeed, supporting this bill. marco rubio, very clear he's happy with the changes made to the child tax credit. republican leaders throwing more money at that overnight, bringing him into the fold as well. tonight, though, there are still three tbds, senator mike lee, senator flake and senator susan collins, they are still reading the bill, potentially going to be making their announcements some time soon. but republicans tonight, wolf, feel ver...

Very happy and they do have the votes, now particularly with a rubio yes. >> let me ask you about one specific yes vote that is in the senate for this compromised bill, but wasn't for the initial bill a couple weeks ago and that's senator bob corker of tennessee. back on the 1st he released this statement, here's part of it. "i'm not able to cast aside concerns and vote for legislation i believe based on information i currently have could deepen the debt burden on future generations." here's what he released yesterday. "the question becomes, is our country before with or without this piece of ...

In the history of our country. >> we're really proud of the work that we've done already up until this point with senator rubio already doubling the tax credit. taking it to $2,000 per child. continue working with the senator. we think we made great strides and frankly pretty historic movement in the terms of the child tax credit. we're proud of that work. going to keep working with them until we get the job done. we expect to happen before the end of the year. >> the senate bill that passed includes a $2,000 tax child credit. only maximum 1100 is refundable. making much of the credit inaccess...

A very tight labor market right now in much of the country. i have to assume if you get a big capital investment, some of it will go to productivity and a lot of it will flow through to wages. >> that is in the data. historically, if you get productivity growth it flows through the wages, and as i mentioned before, it has not been happening in the us because you have not had the productivity growth. right now we have a tight labor market to produce higher wages it will just get past. neither productivity piece to make it better off. >> what about deficit concerns? according to the budget struc...

But it would save a ton of money if you get generic on to the market more quickly and it's something that until now we've not seen any willingness from the white house to do but in the face of more deficit concerns, they have become much more interested in it all of a sudden. >> and i think it's important that we realize, we democrats realize that, yes, we've got to wring some savings out of medicare and medicaid without destroying the fundamental entitlement of those programs and we can do it. >> i dpragree with you. when it comes to medicare advantage and negotiating for lower drug prices, a...