small businesses. we ve got to make sure we are doing everything we can instead to grow jobs and get this economy back on track. where is the president s plan to stop the largest tax increase in american history from occurring on january the 1st? reporter: there are automatic plans in spending in place agreed to last year. republicans say they are a blunt object and could be replaced with other cuts. democrats say there is another way. tax increases. so i say to the 41 republicans and senator hatch who sent me this letter, move on revenues, we could have had a deal a longtime ago. reporter: he also says higher healthcare costs for an abling population will be a huge factor in the budgets. some analysts say the absolutely worst thing for the economy is the uncertainty overall this as businesses wait to see what washington does to make hiring easier or harder and to keep the economy growing. jenna: a lot of dynamics at play. thank you very much for that. we have a new poll that s