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Children. so one of the things biden is saying is i ll show you my budget. you show me your budget. where is the republican budget? do you know which programs under house republican budget would face spending cuts when that budget is finalized? well, i think a lot of things will be on the table. i think there s some that the speaker made clear and that is we re not going to try to do any reforms in social security, medicaid and medicare. so it will be the discretionary side. it will take a little time, as you said in your introduction, we re just barely organizing our committees. that once again will take a little time. probably several months before we have a budget. and probably about the same amount of time before the president has a budget. and but one thing i worry about, jake, it worries me that we get to june when these supposed extraordinary measures run out. we should be working with urgency now. we shouldn t wait until we re right up to the deadline because then you have ....
The House Republican blueprint provides a strong contrast to President Obama's plan to saddle Americans with historic tax increases, runaway spending, and a doubling of the national debt ....
Points. they are trying to turn the tables on democrats and say democrats are the ones trying to take away your medicare, which actually there s only one party that s on the record trying to cut medicare and that is if you look at the house republican budget they proposed and approved a budget that cuts medicare and other health care programs by $1 trillion. what democrats need do is they need to get out front on that issue of health care, because they have that natural advantage and if they don t exploit that, that s going massive failure for the democratic party. so, chris, i hear there are a lot of swing districts in california where hillary won, republicans are in right now. i don t know california as well as i do places like northern virginia where barbara comstock is having the fight of her political life because what heidi just talked about and that s-of course, trump being upside down with suburban swing voters. ....
And the new house republican budget targets both. republicans are doing exactly what wall street wants. and progressives in the white house and in congress will have to stop them. joining me now is vermont independent senator, bernie sanders. thanks for being here, senator. my pleasure. senator, banks are now talking about withholding donations. are they scared of the work you venn and others have done? well, i think they re beginning to get nervous that the american people are catching on, that the ethos of wall street is greed and fraud. that is unacceptable al for six financial institutions to have assets equivalent to 6 o0% of the gdp of our country to issue half the mortgages and 2/3 of the credit cards in this country. and the american people understand that we in congress are unable to regulate wall ....
Keep, fix, or improve the affordable care act. 22% favor repeal. that s number one. number two, when people realize what repeal means, and we re going on offense on this, when voters realize that what the republicans want to do is repeal the whole thing so that if you re a woman and you have breast cancer, you lose your insurance again. if you re a senior, you pay an additional $1200 for prescription drugs. if you re a student, you get kicked off your parents health insurance. when people understand what republican repeal means, they are more angry with republican repeal, so we re going on offense on those issues and we re going to continue to stay on offense on this republican budget, which completely devastates the middle class. steve israel, thank you so much. have a good weekend. let me bring in washington post reporter nia malika henderson and ken vogel. good to see both of you. let s start with the obamacare issue, since that s where we left off, and can bill clinton ....