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Voters are the ones that benefit, and ultimately in the final bill that's what's going to happen. >> congressman, during the obama administration the argument we used to hear from republicans in congress was the democrats are irresponsible. they want to spend now. they say they're going to deal with the deficit down the road. that's the argument you've just made. you're sounding just like a democrat. we're going to have our tax cuts now and sort out the deficit down the road. you weren't satisfied with that argument when it was the democrats making that argument. why should people believe that...

Say there's no disagreement. people do disagree over this, and that's the problem that washington hat right now. everyone says we have to cut, we have to cut. that's the problem with the murray budget. it goes way too far toward the republicans. if unfortunate the sharp debate that schumer is talking about, debate the progressive budget, which actually adds spending and stimulus against the ryan plan. >> we haven't cut spending, have we? seriously. can we at least try that and see whether or not all of this -- but that's not cutting spending. you're still spending the money, judd forestalling ...

It says these are the numbers and these are the policies that prove those number. >> i would be happy if patty muralies has the same bottom-line numbers if she was transparent how she got there. there's so many gimmicks as a former cbo guy, it makes me cringe. i respect people like the progressive budget. if you want to spend more, i think you're in wrong, but be honest about it. >> paul ryan's budget doesn't really get to the detail of how he would make his cuts. >> and it's full of gimmickry. >> paul ryan's budget does more from a budget point of view than is necessary. he describes the poli...

The house republican budget, which essentially mirrors the really, really unpopular ryan budget from last year. while the ryan budget, the house republican budget is generally seen as more of a liability than an asset for republicans running for higher office today, because a lot of its ideas are particularly unpopular, particularly those around medicare, the progressive caucus budget is made up of policies that poll really, really well. that are very popular when you go out and ask real-life humans about them. the progressive budget, for example, calls for ending the bush tax cuts for the wea...