we re going after obama regulations, over givingng donad trump the people he needs to step his government. now we re on to obamacare, repealing and replacing obamacare. this is just a phase one. b tom price is out there working on phase two. tucker: i don t understand this. this is the 115th congress i think you ve been in session for less than half of that time. in april we checked, there s a lot to do, nothing meaningful, u went to a bill signing about coal. but there s a lot of stuff that hasn t been done that he promised and it hasn t made its way through congress, not all your fault obviously, but eight days is not a lot of time. we re producing a lot here, i m excited about it. the real why is because how long it takes to pass things through the senate spirit we typically do like a 100 day plan, as you ve heard. i went and set down with mitch mcconnell and the fact that they have to populate the trump government with their employees and cap secretaries and assistant secretari
my question is the message of that election really that we need to help investors quits mark the die was over 20,000. are they the group that needs to help? i this was a tax on capital income which is bad for economic growth it s like capitalal gains tax effectively. we re not going to keep obamacare taxes inff place. the trillion dollar tax cut that this bill represents, that s part of that tax increase that was in obamacare. we promised we would repeal the obamacare taxes, this is one of the obamacare taxes so we re keeping our promises. it s bad tax policy because it s bad for economic growth and were repealing obamacare spending. we re getting rating of its tax and they were getting rid of its spending. you may want to keep at 3.8% tax, we re not going to keep it because it was part of obamacare. tucker: lots are things are part of obamacare that you re not doing anything about because you can t under reconciliation.
and now we re translating that legislation, that plan into a bill. i m really excited, here s why i m excited. tucker: can i ask you just really quick.an you rolled it out yesterday, you said you ve been working on this for a year with precise termshi and everything. when you rolled it out, you must have known that lots of members of the freedom caucus in the heritage foundation and in much of republican centers would start barking about it. why not wait until everyone wasn on board with the version before rolling it out? as i said, all these folks helped pass, we campaigned on this last year.efhe what i think is happening is people are getting agn little confused about what you can and cannot put in the reconciliatiog bill. i m getting technical here. there s three phases here and that s what a lot of outside groups just don t understand the fact that if we put everything in the bill that we possibly want, we would have a filibuster, we couldn t pass it in the senate. this bill, w
children at public expense in u.s. hospitals, it s a big problem. why is it that defunded? we re looking at reconciliation issues. tucker: you can t defund under reconciliation? we got an issue with thatn were working on that with the senate spirit we ve got these goofy senate rules we got to work with. we can to every single thing wen want to. we would do all of these things if we could without getting a filibuster. we don t want to jeopardize this bill and to make it subject to a filibuster which means we can t do anything. that s why were trying to do this so we can form a two senate rules. here s one more point i would say. because we re delegates and come over giving medicaid back to the states. massive amount of federalism. the border state governors can do that. the border state governors decide what happens with their medicaid populations. we cap it, we stop the expansion, we grow it as a slow the rate over time with saves trillions which is a massive amount of debt reduc
house in the last 24 hours ise not the obamacare replacement plan. not the obamacare repeal plannt we ve been hoping for. this is a step in the wrong direction. tucker: the speaker of the house may have his work cut out for him, the american health care act has been replacing obamacare blasted by some of the conservatives that support he made need to pass it. the house freedom caucus says it s obamacare lite. the heritage foundation says the bill misses the mark. several republican senators said they are unimpressed, what is going on? speaker of the house paul ryan joins us with an update on alls of this. you bet, good to be with you. tucker: it s been seven years to the month since obamacare passed. the obvious question is in all that time, couldn t republicans formulate a plan and agree on before going public with it ? it looks like chaos, why is that? i don t think it is chaos, i heard your lead-in, here s what we did a year ago.