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This bill, the spending increases, it's going to cost almost that much. >> shepard: the tax bill is where it started. everybody has a tax break now. self getting more money. they're happy about it. your tax break is going to end and corporation tax breaks will continue forever. it's great to talk to you, andrew taylor. congressional reporter for the associated press. thank you. another look at the white house now. we'll bring you the leaving as soon as it starts. an empty podium does not speak. a live look at the dow. we're up 150 points off the session lows. if you're looking for a silver lin...

And jon, president trump just tweeting that he supports this budget deal, but it still faces some opposition in the house tonight, doesn't it? >> reporter: it sure does. first of all, house conservatives hate this agreement, because it includes massive spending increases. and nancy pelosi today broke the record for the longest speech on the house floor in history, more than eight hours, taking issue with the agreement, because it does not include protection for the dreamers, those undocumented immigrants brought into this country as young children. ultimately, the odds are this will pass, but ...

Well, not so nice way to put it, but they're sellouts. they're sellouts. there were people in my class that came in with me in 1994 who were fighting for deficit reduction. we balanced the budget four years in a row and they were tough as hell when bill clinton was in the white house. it will second george w. bush got in the white house, whatever he asked for, they rolled over and gave it to him. they didn't care. suddenly the thing that drove them the most to run for office, they completely surrendered because you had a republican in the white house and bob costa, it's repeating itself. i jus...

Together and figure out a way to cut down the spending. i have a concern about the deficit, too, but some of those folks vote for big spending increases, and that's part of the issue, too, chris, it's not just the tax side. you can't just project uninterrupted spending increases as a republican and say we are fine with that. we are supposed to be the party that wants to streamline government. >> it's not an either/or, it could be both. argue about spending, those are political choices, but on this one, why didn't you design the tax cut to benefit the middle class and put the burden on people l...

Issues, deregulation and taxation, for example, getting gorsuch through. those kinds of things will begin to lift, but it won't be trump who is getting that done for him. i really think that this has not been fatal for trump. no question about that, but how nimble he's going to be and whether he can change. we haven't seen much evidence of that in his private life or in his public life, and i think that's what we have to watch. >> it's interesting to me, his instinct is to want to work with democrats. there is an excerpt of the great robert draper piece on trump, and he wrote this and based on...