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The last decade. probably not in the last two. in the short-term deficit increase which obviously if we can do it any other way with democrat support, i would be all in favor of that. we are going to start to see a real growth and increase in the paychecks. not just for the top earners, but for the average person that is making a wage here in america. more than $2,000 a year back this their pocket. it's krill critical that we trust the american people to spend their dollar more wisely than d.c. because they always do. >> part of the plan to help offset this huge increase in the nation's debt, ...

That's going to be paid for. most likely will be sliding around some of the start and end dates for the cuts. we already know the cuts to the individual tax rates are set to expire in a couple of years. they're playing the game to keep the price tag down. >> it's very complicated. there's congressional math involved that they can't go over a certain deficit increase. you just tweeted provisions removed from final tax bill per hill sources familiar with it, student loan deduction removal, medical expense, johnson amendment repeal, fetal personhood language. what does that mean? higher ed tuitio...

Credits, jut we're giving hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, increase the deficit to give this to major companies and hope and pray it's going to be different this time, and i'm afraid the bad news for middle class families is not only is there no evidence that wages will go up, but there's lots of evidence that the republicans will use this deficit increase as then an excuse to cut education, cut higher education, cut medicaid, cut medicare. this is not -- >> to be clear, that's because with these tax cuts we've seen every measure of these tax cuts indicate some increase in the def...

Raise taxes on middle class americans. well, either that's not going to happen and it's just a gimmick to give them cover for this huge deficit increase, or it actually would raise taxes actually when the economy was weak and make no sense at all. and i think what really is the concern for so many people is that when they're raising $1.5 trillion of deficit, you know, lawrence, we know what they're going to do. the moment they do this, the moment they have made the deficit that much worse than the out years, they're going to come back and tell people they have no choice but to cut medicare, me...

Today he said after agreeing in principle with senate membership on a trigger mechanism to ensure greater fiscal responsibility should economic growth estimates not be realized, uvoted to advance this important piece of legislation. gene, he is saying he wants a trigger mechanism to go into effect if the deficit starts to go up more than the republicans are projecting it will go up. but they are projecting it will go up $1.5 trillion. >> yeah, i mean look, i like bob corker. we work together well. i respect him. but with all due respect, you don't deal with gimmicks by creating a brand-new gim...