and seeing how far you can get into these devastated areas. the good news, the floodwaters are starting to recede. the bad news, there s so much water that fell in this area, the streets, these neighborhoods, still impassable. all right. george howell, thank you so much. we appreciate it. in a few hours, the president and first lady will leave washington to go to the gulf coast. they are set to meet with the people affected by hurricane harvey in texas and louisiana. jeremy diamond, what do you know about this trip? reporter: in a few hours, the president will depart from the white house, headed to the gulf coast where he will be able to go to houston and southwestern louisiana. this comes after yesterday. he sends, his administration sends a $785 billion request for disaster relief aid. he sent it to congress, which he hopes they will approve. that is bigger than we were
perhaps the most remarkable example how they are taking money from less well off people and giving it to more well off people. $880 million in medicaid cuts, another $675 million to end aca subsidies. they are giving back about $542 million through their own tax credits. but the btom line is a netcut of $1.1 trillion in health care assistance for people of lower incomes and for the poor. against that they are cutting taxes by $785 billion, the vast preponderance of that go to people making over $250,000 and to businesses, all of it really going to those groups. that s how they got the reduction in the deficit. essentially cutting what you re giving to the less well off people, giving a good bit of it back to rich people and a little bit of deficit reduction. steve, thank you. mark halperin, the cbo is
of sitting there and listening to everything. so many new members. we have a lot of good people who offered thought and less than bombastic statements and yet they continue to accuse us was getting rid of a social security. it is criminal for an 85 year old woman they tell me you are trying to get rid of your social security. no one over the age of 55 will be impacted and getting to the class warfare. 03 tax cuts of president bush. we saw 1.782 trillion dollars in revenues in 07 and they went to 2.567 and 44 percent increase and 785 billion increase, that s the way make sure we have growth oriented tax cuts to get the debt down and along with the effort to reduce spending.
measures on the floor you have a responsibility of sitting there and listening to everything. so many new recommends, we have lots of really good people who offered thought, less than bombastic and they continually accuse us of trying to get rid of social security and it is critical that an 85-year-old woman as has been the case with me will say they ken telling me that you are trying to get rid of my social security. and they are getting to the class war fare argument, mike. time and time again. of the tax cuts of president bush we saw $1.782 trillion in revenues in 07 they went to 2.567. a 44% increase. $785 billion increase. that is the way. making sure we have growth oriented tax cuts is the way we get the debt down along with this effort to reduce spending. mike: congressman david
speaker. when you are managing measures on the floor you have a responsibility of sitting there and listening to everything. so many new recommends, we have lots of really good people who offered thought, less than bombastic and they continually accuse us of trying to get rid of social security and it is critical that an 85-year-old woman as has been the case with me will say they ken telling me that you are trying to get rid of my social security. and th are getting to the class war fare argument, mike. time and time again. of the tax cuts of president bush we saw $1.782 trillion in revenues in 07 they went to 2.567. a 44% increase. $785 billion increase. that is the way. making sure we have growth oriented tax cuts is the way we get the debt down along with this effort to reduce spending.