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Reckoning that is coming. despite everything that you just outlined what it does to the debt, democrats also call it robin hood in reverse. why? because you have massive cuts to social safety net programs in here and programs that feed poor people, that block grant medicaid, about 675 billion cuts to federal health care programs. and we don't even get to balance. so this is what our future is. this is as a result of irresponsible decisions that have been made for the past decade. the bingeing on war spending. the bingeing on tax cuts. and the failure of our government to address the long-term ...

Let's break down some of where the money will be going. $6 billion to fight the opioid epidemic. extending the khierns health insurance program to 10 years and $80 billion for disaster releafs from hurricanes and wildfires and lifts military spending caps the next two years. defense hawks are happy about the bill. a 10% jump in military spending. that works out to about $700 billion for national defense and war spending in 2018. and $716 billion in 2019. plus $4 billion over the next two years to help reduce the veterans affair healthcare backlog. domestically it gives a 10% increase in fundin...

Let's break down some of where the money will be going. $6 billion to fight the opioid epidemic. extending the khierns health insurance program to 10 years and $80 billion for disaster releafs from hurricanes and wildfires and lifts military spending caps the next two years. defense hawks are happy about the bill. a 10% jump in military spending. that works out to about $700 billion for national defense and war spending in 2018. and $716 billion in 2019. plus $4 billion over the next two years to help reduce the veterans affair healthcare backlog. domestically it gives a 10% increase in fundin...

Unemployment karining are. a con sense among economists we desperately need to inject stimulus into the economy. the white house proposed a package which totaled $787 billion in tax cuts and federal spending by the time president obama signed into law a month after his inauguration. the republicans who had just spent the duration of the bush years exploding deficits through bush tax cuts, war spending and meds care part d suddenly on a dime got deficit religion. that stimulus bill that president obama was pushing got a grand total of three republican votes in the senate and zero not one, zero ...

>> that's part of the problem, a very long-term problem. we are not immediately going to have problems with our debt paying it unless we manufacturer -- neil: never say never, young man. >> it could be a lot faster. the cost of that would be much higher than the tax cut by any stretch of the imagination, very quickly, over ten years which is projections are, the bottom line is nobody cares of deficit when you're out of power. the debt increases that are going to happen are automatic. trump has done less policies included in the last, bush did a lot of spending, a lot of war spending, obama did...