i m melissa francis. top democrats accusing the white house of derailing budget talks and risking a shutdown over the border wall and healthcare demands. lawmakers have just a few days to reach a deal on the federal budget and to avert a government shutdown as well. a lot of the questions that we heard there had to do with taxes, the budget, north korea and the first 100 days. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us live with more on that. what stuck out to you? reporter: melissa, good afternoon. that deadline of friday looming when most agencies do run out of money. this president does not want to put an exclamation point on his first 100 days by seeing the government shut down. so mick mulvaney is negotiating. including subsidies for obama care if they ll give $30 billion for the defense department, for border funding and if they ll put in $1.55 billion to begin
the ever growing chasm between the haves and the have nots. america s wealth gap had already reached record level also and is on track to continue to expanding even wider. while low and middle income families are still waiting on the return of their wealth, the richest americans are wealthier than ever before. holding 76% of all the country s wealth. the top 10% of wealthiest americans hold three quarters of all the country s wealth. they re doing so well forbes magazine in its recent tally of the country s 400 richest people found so many billionaires making so many billions that the magazine made the list extra competitive by increasing the price of entry from $1.55 billion to $1.7 billion. that brings us back to the guy sharing a spot at number 121 on that list. the obvious question about restoring equity to the imbalance of wealth in the hands of donald trump and others like him. what of the idea, to take some
funding by $1.55 billion, which cuts research and delays progress in the development of better cancer drugs, which will have long-lasting effects, considering medical breakthroughs do not happen overnight, but rather three years of incremental research. in fact, this specific cut to the nih was so troubling to all on all in, that we invited republican congressman renee ellmers on the show, who to her credit, sponsored a bill to restore the nih s funding, because it s the right thing to do. and do you know how many vote that is bill got? zero. and do you know why it got zero votes? because house speaker john boehner never brought it to the floor. joining me now is dr. georges benjamin, executive director of the american public health association. dr. benjamin, there is an argument that republicans are making which is that if you care about cancer treatment, if you care about what s happening in the nih because of the government shutdown, just fund the nih.
republicans find their conscience. and two, remember, this is the same house republican caucus that brought us the real world hurt of sequestration cuts back in january, when it cut nih funding by $1.55 billion, which cuts research and delays progress in the development of better cancer drugs, which will have long-lasting effects, considering medical breakthroughs do not happen overnight, but rather three years of incremental research. in fact, this specific cut to the nih was so troubling to all on all in, that we invited republican congressman renee ellmers on the show, who to her credit, sponsored a bill to restore the nih s funding, because it s the right thing to do. and do you know how many vote that is bill got? zero. and do you know why it got zero votes? because house speaker john boehner never brought it to the floor. joining me now is dr. georges benjamin, executive director of the american public health association. dr. benjamin, there is an
that brought us the real world hurt of sequestration cuts back in january, when it cut nih funding by $1.55 billion, which cuts research and delays progress in the development of better cancer drugs, which will have long-lasting effects, considering medical breakthroughs do not happen overnight, but rather three years of incremental research. in fact, this specific cut to the nih was so troubling to all on all in, that we invited republican congressman renee elmers on the show, who to her credit, sponsored a bill to restore the nih s funding, because it s the right thing to do. and do you know how many vote that is bill got? zero. and do you know why it got zero votes? because house speaker john boehner never brought it to the floor. joining me now is dr. georges benjamin, executive director of the american public health association. dr. benjamin, there is an argument that republicans are making which is that if you care about cancer treatment, if you care about what s happening in t