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Medicare payment cuts that would have affected reimbursement to hospitals and physicians have again been averted by a last-minute deal in the House. On Tuesday, the House passed the Protecting Medicare & American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act. The bill avoids a 4% statutory cut from the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) provision, extends the moratorium on the Medicare payment sequester
White. the president considers himself the deal maker in chief, given his personal business history, he loves being -- he's a guy who knows a lot about debt. you know who doesn't like it? republicans. >> right. >> tea party members. how is this going to go when it hits congress? >> it's probably going to pass. i mean, it's just amazing to me that we had republicans in 2011 essentially threaten a debt default, force the budget control act, and force the sequester cuts and then subsequently completely abandoned them entirely. >> that's amazing to you? i'll introduce you to merritt garland. >> ha...
Topic. i want to bring in a congress y'all reporter for the military times. talking about superior air power, you're talking about the philadelphia eagles. congratulations on your hometown pride. that is the topic of the cost. within the last hour, they are celebrating they have come to a deal. it would erase the sequester cuts. if they say a bad message in the wake of that wi see participation in the parades. so there's some money for this. if we're talking a blowout, something that costs in the tens or hundreds of millions of
We can make some changes on the margins, but the real debate is what are we going to do the next year. but then the real important debate is the 10, 20 and 30 years after that was that's when our -- because that's when our debt gets out of control. elizabeth: okay. so let's talk -- i want your interpretation and break down of president trump's proposal for 2018. >> here's all he's told us so far, he wants to increase defense spending by about $50 billion and pay for it by cutting nondefense spending, state department cut, cuts to nih, epa. but he's only talking about 30% of the budget in one y...
Party in the second bush term, a lot of it was the war in iraq and afghanistan. we spent an enormous amount of money. big entitlement growth with medicare, bush doing that legislation with the democrats. we have to be careful that we do not become deficit doves. mike pence was known as a deficit hawk and it is great to do all these programs, we have to fix these bridges and so forth but there has to be meaningful cuts. not just rely on future growth in order to get some of this done. i have some agreement and what the freedom caucus is saying here. we don't want to get ourselves in a hole in t...