cashing in on the relationship it sounds like he was reaching out to ford. we know for at&t he made the call. seemed to be selling his services around town. if that s the american droem, the american dream is in a lot of trouble. speaking of the swamp, these guys are creatures from the black lagoon. they define swampish behave. you can t blame atennessee. they have a $108 billion merger on the lynn. and they were paying michael cohen one one hundred thousandth of that merger for influence that might help the merger go threw. so you can understand which they wanted to hire opheim. and you can understand why michael cohen wanted to take that lobbying money. but he didn t register as a lobbyist. there might be other ways he violated campaign finance rules. now that s not the biggest thing in the world. but it gives mueller leverage
plan gains including the tax reform plan but the president not backing down on this. we lost $108 billion a year on trade. not going to happen. we have to get it back. how previous presidents allowed that to happen is disgraceful. bill: mike emmanuel on the hill. good morning. how concerned are republicans about this tariff idea today? they re pretty vocal about calling it a tariff attack on consumer paul ryan is surging the white house to not advance this plan. we expect to hear from the speaker momentarily and others are expressing their concerns as well. this is damaging jobs. it should not be a conversation about a blanket tariff. id shut be about saving american jobs for everyone in the country to succeed and we should be turning our attention to
what is this? the budget? yeah. we ll get to the space stuff in just a moment. this is a $4.4 trillion spending plan. let s begin with the cuts. medicaid and medicare. $250 billion for medicaid over ten years. cuts to the food stamp program. $214 billion over ten years. the epa, this will get some tongues wagging. $208 billion in cuts. a 34% cut. by the way, virtually eliminates all climate change related programs. let s take a look at the boosts. defense spending. heard a lot about this of the $716 billion going to the mel teary. healthcare for the veterans. the opioid crisis response, $13 billion. as you mentioned there, we re talking about the restructuring this country for roads and rails
again, that s the authorization, it s not the appropriation. this bill would also raise the debt ceiling so it s not voted on again until after this election. and then it would fill up to fema, the federal emergency management agency pot now run out of money $08 billion in disaster relief it would sit there until it was needed over the course of the next several years. by comparison, martha, the house bill they are working on increases defense spending by $35 billion this year from 549 to 584. but does not increase to nondefense spending, doesn t do anything about the debt ceiling and doesn t do anything about filling fema. big differences between the two chambers. martha: jim jordan probably for many republicans out there. i think a lot of people thought when they sent all these republicans to washington, including a president, that there might be some discussion when you raise these caps about places where you could cut spending. i think everybody knows that there are, indeed, plac
middle class americans pay more by the year 2027. that s not the only tax pledge that has been broken here. remember the promises of a simpler tax code. experts say both versions are incredibly complex. remember the promise the bill would pay for itself. the senate plan cost millions over the decade. congress itself estimates the bill only creates $408 billion in growth leaving about a trillion in deficits. still a lot of concern about middle class people who live in those high tax states who deduct a lot of state and local taxes still trying to work that out. teachers concerned about their write-offs, large institutions grad students, all of these important sectors. those numbers show you that it gets worse the longer it goes on, 2018, when there s a midterm election. they won t necessarily feel that. they put off the pain a couple of elections.