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Retrofits and getting folks back to work right away. >> okay. there have been -- there's really only been one tax increase and that was on smokers in this country for s-chip but it's clear that the bush tax cuts are going to be gone and are you going to raise taxes -- the american people want to know, are you going to raise taxes on the top 2%? does this budget do that? >> this budget does that. also in our last budget. and let's be very clear, the parts of the bush tax cuts that are expiring in this budget are those that, as you correctly noted, only the top 2%, the wealthiest of households. ...

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Tweeting that he has reached out to chuck schumer. they have had a conversation just in the last 24 hours about health care. chuck schumer, again, the minority leader there in the senate saying, well, hang on a second. we are not for repeal and replace, and especially with the developments overnight of the reduction of support for birth control for businesses. that's antithet cal to what we stand for as democrats. so, ben, we're sort of seeing two opposite ends of the political spectrum. what do you make of it? >> it comes right after us finding out that they have not renewed s-chip. if that l...

Response to hillary care back in the 1990s than it is to sort of democrats ideas or ideals of singer payer or what they would have liked to have seen in the system be expansions of medicare, medicaid and s-chip which is what teddy kennedy for example used to propose and having government provided health care rather than health care depending on private markets. so really a lot of the problems with this bill are a lot more simply not just ideological but a lot more local. so you have states for example four republican governors have come out against this and these are from states like ohio, ari...