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Regulations and if we pass an infrastructure bill and if we do all these other things, here's how the growth model might work. but the congress that exists right now can't promise they'll be able to do those things next year or if a future congress after 2018, which may look very different, will feel the same way. so, he's right in that sense. the deficit implications of this, we're just not going to know for a while. >> president trump last hour already talking about how well these tax cuts will do. even how this bill repealed obamacare while no one was really looking or paying attention. wha...

Effectively taking numbers and names of those who break with the u.s. at a time when the united states president trump has said is funding a lot of the efforts abroad. make no mistake, andrea, the focus right now is on this historic tax cut that is going to happen, that is passing soon on the house floor, we anticipate. and that the senate passed overnight. this is the president's first major legislative victory and he is going to take a victory lap at the white house here later today with all of the republican senators and members of congress who will be here to help him take that victory lap...

At the same time, andrea. >> i want to break down the deficit implications with maya in a seconds. but i wanted to fact check mitch mcconnell saying there had been tons of hearings on this. i cannot recall a single finance committee hearing on this bill. >> no, i mean, they will point to the senate markup of this bill saying that this was -- that is sort of the process for this particular bill. and the fact that largely, this is sort of a bill gobbled together of some fairly standard republican tax policy issues over time. but the idea that this particular bill was debated in open sun light ov...

And senator are working to refine this bill. ultimately, republican leadership feels pretty good of their chances of at least bringing this to the floor where they can essentially dare their own members to stand up and block what has been an enormous priority for republicans, especially since health care failed. >> which senators are you watching closest? >> reporter: i'm watching bob corker, jeff flake, these are guys who were concerned about the deficit implications of this bill. they've been working behind the scenes to add something they're calling a trigger or a backstop, which would esse...

Meanwhile, there's really big issues. tax cuts and here you've got wavering republicans. my own sense is that we should keep an eye on the deficit hawks. there are more of those and they're in both parties potentially. and there are more deficit implications the more and more we learn about this bill. >> they're also the deficit hawks are the people who made the most declarative statements. this is very different from health care. when we had health care, people drew red lines, i will not vote for this bill unless you change this in writing. to the extent we have ha, we have people like bob co...