special interest groups, democrats and even some republicans. the whole meals on wheels became a branding thing. they pushed back on those cuts. last week the budget guru said states do that. that s what states should do. what churches, the private sector does that. not petroleum of federal government. should be an interesting debate about funding the government. keeping the lights on. ahead our troops in iraq are fighting like never before. that s the word from president trump and that s not sitting well with everyone. we re live in iraq next. just ask listerine® users. the very people we studied in the study of bold. people who are statistically more likely to stand up to a bully, do a yoga handstand, and be in a magician s act. listerine® kills 99% of bad breath germs so you can feel 100% in life. bring out the bold™.
no doubt about it. any time you have the word obamacare and jobs out in a government report and that gets injected into the political blood stream you ll get a lot of people up on capitol hill talking about this. in a half hour now the budget guru at the chronical budget office will be pressed on these details and that thing that breanna was men shopping about the head of the council of economic advice jobs the fact he couldn t answer the question as to what happens when you pull the equivalent of 2.5 million people out of the workforce over the next ten years that can t be a good net effect on the economy. he did not answer that question and i think douglas that will be one of the key questions to him. jim acosta live from the white house this morning. thank you. still to come in the newsroom a second day of apologies and answers on capitol hill, executives from target and neiman marcus looking at day two of tough questions from
now there s a question about what the president knew weabout the problems. the white house is reaching out to tech gurus volunteers you maim it. they wanted a fix it web site and at the same time foond a way around it. president obama recorded a youtube video reaching out to reporters asking them to help sign up for obama care manually and bypass the web site entirely. that is why i am asking you to be a part of team obama care. team obama care is running into trouble. no heads are rolling after spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing the flawed site. former white house budget guru is being passed with fixing the web site.
but the damage that a dead default would do is very real, that much i am clear on. can send the dollar crashing, could cause interest rates to soar, could freeze credit markets around the world, stock markets would almost definitely crash. in short, it could send the u.s. economy into a recession even worse than the one we are still struggling to crawl out from. that is the republican bet that precipitated this standoff, that in the face of another default threat, democrats would agree to give away the store. a lot has happened in the two-plus years since that last debt ceiling showdown. obama was willing to negotiate and make concessions in the name of averting a threat to drive the u.s. economy off a cliff. a lot has happened. in fact, just since yesterday. the weekend began with let s mack a deal worthy promise, behind door number one we had paul ryan trying to broker a deal, the budget guru of republicans in the house, a conservative with deep ties to the republican establishment,
want to ask you, in terms of funding for this, we re hearing $2 billion worth of damages. as a budget guru here, i ask you, fema s budget i think for the year is somewhere around $11.3 billion, 11.4. does that seem like something that, that figure, do you think that that seems within general projections, as far as these things go? i think so. before i drop into bean-counter mode, let me just say the emotions of the tragedy are so deep there. and it s so important in that regard. that we amply budget for these disasters. historically we ve often ignored the fact that these disasters are becoming more common, more expensive and more devastating. in recent years, we ve thankfully turned the page on that and we re doing a better job of budgeting, even protecting some of those dollars from sequestration. which makes a lot of sense. so $2 billion initially, may be right. these numbers tend to go up as