[ cheers and applause ] well, it is great to be with all of you here today. i love you back. [ cheers and applause ] we all said a few folks who worked so hard on behalf of the people of maryland every single day. senator ben carton is here. congressman, steny hoyer is here. and congresswoman donna edwards is here. and all of you are here. [ cheers and applause ] you know, sometimes you just need to escape beltway politics for a little bit even if you re just a mile or two outside the beltway. now, i know that a lot of you have seen some of theant ant ii
justin trudeau is heading to washington for his first face to face with president. trudeau recently accepted 40,000 syrian refugees and then on wednesday president trump then welcomed israel s prime minister netanyahu who has praised to build a border wall. two more of president nominees picks are set today, steve mnuchin faced a tough road to get to this point. senate breaking filibuster pushing him through and confirmation for david also said this evening. our own chris wallace confronted ben carton over the stalled tactics behind it. isn t this blatant democratic obstruction? not at all. we can t stop the nominees, we know that. but you re doing everything we can to slow it down.
he added to that that the deductibles are so high that it s practically useless, don t let the charles schumer clowns out of this web. later, mike pence on the other side of the house tried to clarify a little bit of what he had to say. you read his tweet this morning. that he is admonished the congress to be careful. and i reiterated that before the republican conference today. look, we are talking about people s lives. we are talking about families. but we are also talking about a policy that has been a failure virtually since its inception. so we are also hearing from some of the other members who have come out here today about what the president is trying to message here, and it really boils down to messaging from the democrat side. senator ben carton of maryland told me just a little while ago that he told me all the good that the law does come all the protection it affords to the vulnerable in this country, and they are going to hone that message home. congressman tim ryan of
at all. here to discuss that, immigration reform and more, two senate leaders. roy blount joining us from missouri, and from maryland, ben carton. the cbo says over the next decade, senator, that there will be 2.5 million fewer workers working full-time because of obamacare. here is the cbo elmendorf. by providing health insurance to people with low income and withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive relative for people to work. republicans say this proves that obamacare is a job killer. democrats say it means that pewer people will be locked into jobs. senator blount, what is wrong