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We saw plenty of republicans enjoying president's speech saturday night. what's happening right now to people because of sequestration, the loss of millions on meals on wheels which we talked about on this broadcast. the slashing of head start programs. republicans have absolutely nothing to say about that, do they? >> no. look, the republicans care more about tax breaks for hedge fund billionaires than they do about food for hungry seniors. this is the new republican party. this is the remade republican party. they won't sit down with the president. they won't come up with a bargain that can ...

Furloughed a day but the transportation secretary can move that money into the account that funds their salaries rather fast. of course the president has to get the bill and sign it first. >> let's talk about the politics of this. even though it passed the senate and house overwhelmingly and very, very quickly, not all democrats are pleased. explain why. >> that's right. i was walking the halls of the house today hearing a lot of house democrats frankly curse under their breath and their frustration was aimed at fellow democrats, both at the white house and in the senate who agreed to fix the ...

Dana, a local news report that was referred to by jared from last month on how head start programs in indiana were using lotteries to decide which preschoolers would get kicked out, look at this report. >> head start has made a big difference in 4-year-old sage, how he plays with other kids, how he's advanced academically. >> i'm very proud of him. >> but alice just learned her son soon has to stay home. he's being cut from the program as a result of federal budget cuts. >> our hearts are broken because he loves school. >> earlier this week, staff put all of the kids' names in a fish bowl. nam...

Over the last week. questions are being raised about why action has not been taken to help others hurt by the sequester, including head start, for example. seniors who have lost meals as a result of the cuts on meals on wheels through furloughs because of cuts. so should congress have passed a bill just dealing with the fax furloughs? what does your gut tell you? that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'm tamron hall. have a great weekend. we'll be back for you on monday. "the cycle" is up next. but, i didn't always watch out for myself. with so much noise about health care... i tuned...

From cancer clinics turning away medicaid patients. joining us now is nancy cook, correspondent for the national journal. what sort of impact to social security cuts like food banks and the head start programs have on the economy overall? >> they have an affect on the economy, it's a fiscal drag, it's a time when the unemployment rate still remains high, the housing industry is -- the economy is really struggling to get momentum and anything like spending cuts for instance really creates a fiscal cldrag that drags down the economy. >> the administration is spending -- those numbers really don'...