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Drag his party and country towards a bit of fiscal sanity, but under president trump, who insisted that there were no compromises needed whatsoever, no reforms needed, he found that, i suppose, the only republican reform that he could do was on the tax side, and so the combination of this blowed eye nomar out budget that these passed and the tax cuts ironically has paul ryanian, fiscal hawk, leaving congress having presided over a trillion dollar -- >> he's the second speaker to resign in the last three or four years. >> less than three years. >> speakers donnell generally just leave their job...

Of pennsylvania, and i think the key here is you look at what's happening in the economy, we're eight months into the trump administration, and job creation is basically the same slow, dreary path it was on during the obama years. so the economy needs help here, needs a growth driver, and this could be it. paul: mary? >> yeah. i mean f they don't grab this -- if they don't grab this, they're crazy. they really did not come to washington to do anything. this is a huge opportunity because there's been so much focus about doing this tax reform in a revenue-neutral manner which, of course, is not ...

Like $800 billion. the president promised on the campaign trail no core social security cuts, no core medicare cuts, no core medicaid cuts. but you can see them there in this bill. it also assumes some pretty lofty goals here, 3% growth rate, the gop health care bil passes, and that tax cuts won't add to deficit. it does arrive at balanced budget, a fiscal hawk's dream over about ten years, but takes these projections and assumptions to get there. there's a biting op ed in the "washington post" right now from larry summers, who used to be treasury secretary for the democrats, and he says that ...

>> it avoid a government shutdown and puts government on auto pilot. some prominent conservatives tried to hold it up hoping to fight president obama's executive action on immigration. >> the president does not get to demand of congress here's the policy i want. give me what i want or i will decree to it be so and ignore the law. >> the house democratic leader blasted it. >> i was so heartbroken. i don't think i've ever said that on the floor of the house. heartbroken to see the taint that was placed on this valuable appropriations bill. >> a terrorism risk insurance package short-handed as tr...

>> okay. >> except about money i'm conservative, very conservative. >> you are very conservative. >> that's true. about money. >> balance the budget repeatedly. >> anyway. >> fiscal hawk. >> i think that david is -- he's right about a couple of things. people have been disappointed in the past and so the president's got to really show what he's got for the next 14 months. but the republicans have been really obstructionist. i don't say -- look, i get along well with republicans when i was governor. i used to get 35% or 40% of the republican vote on a regular basis but these republicans are dif...