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Appreciate quickly again while paychecks remain relatively flat. that's what's fueling the disparity right now. >> okay. you also suggest that the two-year budget, which the president just signed, it rolls back some sequester cuts but not ones for low-income households. so where does it cut? >>. >> well, the cuts that it makes -- actually, what it does is it replaces some of the sequester cuts. it replaces, i believe, $65 billion in cuts that would otherwise have occurred in the budget on what we call the discretionary side of the budget. some of that is defense spending, but some of it are th...

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In the way it was supposed to work gone awry. one of the pride -- i guess points of pride about the american political system, it's supposed to protect the rights of minorities. you're not supposed to have a simple majority that can run roughshod. what we have actually seen is that flipped on its head where you have a small minority, a minority of a party that does not control the white house or the senate. this is actual run roughshod and prevented virtually anything from happening. >> you're hitting on something so important, and thomas frank, you've written about this for years. when we tal...

Some of the ugly sweater -- i mean, sequester cuts, but some dems were annoyed the deal did not do enough -- doesn't do a thing to help the million plus americans who long-term unemployment benefits expire next week. talk about a lump of coal. i definitely agree with them on that. we start with nbc's luke russert on the hill. how does it look this vote will break down? >> reporter: it was interesting, krystal, you saw today the final cloture to move the vote forward. you have talked so wonder any about it. got 12 gop votes, we don't expect 12 gop votes on final passage but expect a few. it did...

>> i'm a little uneasy that we're going to say we're going to pay for that extra spending in years 8 and 10 over the next 10 year budget. >> marco rubio came out early against the measure. >> it raises it by $60 billion and it pays it in ten years. over the next years they'll forget it and keep borrowing more. >> warren hatch said he could support it, saying with democrats controlling the white house and the senate, it is the best we can hope for. he is backing it because continuing resolutions are wasteful. >> i can't emphasize enough how moving from one continuing resolution to another, that...