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The distributional weight of this senate bill, and you saw orin hatch get so mad at sherrod brown. it's weird to take um bridge at something that's the true thing about the bill that you're passing. >> the weird thing is here, they're having a disagreement about a factual question about what's in the bill, and it's partly because the republicans impute something that's not written in there which is to say some parts of this bill are permanent and some of them are temporary. they don't run for the full ten-year budget window because they don't have enough money to do all the middle income tax i...

It's weird to take umbridge at something that's the true thing about the bill that you're passing. >> the weird thing is here, they're having a disagreement about a factual question about what's in the bill, and it's partly because the republicans impute something that's not written in there which is to say some parts of this bill are permanent and some of them are temporary. they don't run for the full ten-year budget window because they don't have enough money to do all the middle income tax increases for the whole ten-year period. what republicans say and i think they believe this as well, ...

And the president, you know, this major piece of legislation passed out of the house, the tax bill, we saw that contentious mark-up in the senate and the most remarkable thing to me is the distributional weight of this senate bill, and you saw orin hatch get so mad at sherrod brown. it's weird to take um bridge at something that's the true thing about the bill that you're passing. >> the weird thing is here, they're having a disagreement about a factual question about what's in the bill, and it's partly because the republicans impute something that's not written in there which is to say some p...

Lot of things bubbling under the surface. i will note president trump called senator johnson shortly after his opposition became known and tried to make clear they will try to figure out a way to get him "yes." this white house is engaged here, republican leadership is engaged here the big question remains, can they get it across the finish line. >> republicans say the bill will benefit the middle class. is that, in fact the case? do we know? >> reporter: at least for the senate proposal we don't, and that's because they've been moving so quickly. they just introduced their latest proposal las...

Make him a "yes." for the senate proposal, they've been moving so quickly. they just introduced their lets a proposal last night and they don't have the distribution tables that say what this will actually do. we have a sense of where it would help people and might not. there's an expansion of the child coverage. all the individual side tax cuts and provisions would expire altogether in 2025. that would be problematic when you look at what's happening on the cooperate side. slashing from 35% to 25%. you also have to factor in, chifrmd from susan collins, still on the fence, the idea that repea...