deficit be damned? i remember that. i remember when allen greenspan in 2001 said the big risk after bill clinton left office is we were paying down the national debt was too fast and then we did the bush tax cut. ronald reagan cut taxes, got 14 million jobs. bill clinton raised taxes, got 28 million jobs. president obama raised taxes, had almost ten times as many private sector jobs as george w. bush did. it is hard to pinpoint taxes as the key variable in the rates of economic growth, job growth and income growth. but nobody cares about the deficit. we always talk about it, but it is always there. the one way which tax cuts
through reconciliation which can is what they would have to do to pass this by a simple majority in the senate, that is why they they expired after a decade. so they don t want to run into the same situation they ran into with the expiration of the bush tax cut and all of that drama. so this makes the numbers more difficult. and could you see them saying let s take a little built moilu moore time, do some negotiations? congress has lost the muscle memory of what it s like pass legislation. congress has los memory of what it s like pass legislation. so i m skeptical that they can do that. and as hunter pointed out, deficit neutral problem is not just an wobamacare situation. the trump budget boosts a bunch of military spending which rps want to do, but then it cuts epa
yeah, this look, this may be a brave new world we re in with donald trump as president because it s the only new dynamic of what we ve seen and i worked in the house republican leadership for two and a half years. what we saw time and time again, bring up a bill on something controversial or what we call a must-pass bill, say the bush tax cut is expiring and shutting down the government, opening the government. the farm bill. the times when dana bash calls you and you don t answer the phone because you don t have a good answer for her. this is the reality where republicans are and where we ve been for years. we have politics we bring something up we consider a real priority for republicans and have to go to the right to get the freedom caucus and lose folks in the moderates and swing back and forth and our members aren t happy. they don t have a direction forward and if donald trump can t bring this home as one dynamic we see that s different from what we ve seen over the past six
democratic senate where the quarter of the democrats voting for the bush tax cut because we sat down and negotiated with them and came to an agreement. so, mrs. obama to put it politely is practicing revisionistic history although as you pointed out there was some opposition but it was policy-based opposition. it wasn t because the president was a black man or that he was a liberal democrat. it was basically the republicans wanted to be heard and you say they weren t heard and that s pretty much the consensus. not only that but, look, the bush administration bent over backwards starting in june of 2008 to work with both the republican and democratic presidential candidates to make them ready we asked for we got the fbi to agree to accept people from both presidential campaigns who could be cleared, given their security clearances at the time of the election. we sat up a software system to help them manage the hundreds of thousands of resumes that they would get. as soon as obama
tax cut pass through the democratic senate where the quarter of the democrats voting for the bush tax cut because we sat down and negotiated with them and came to an agreement. so, mrs. obama to put it politely is practicing revisionistic history although as you pointed out there was some opposition but it was policy-based opposition. it wasn t because the president was a black man or that he was a liberal democrat. it was basically the republicans wanted to be heard and you say they weren t heard and that s pretty much the consensus. not only that but, look, the bush administration bent over backwards starting in june of 2008 to work with both the republican and democratic presidential candidates to make them ready we asked for we got the fbi to agree to accept people from both presidential campaigns who could be cleared, given their security clearances at the time of the election. we sat up a software system to help them manage the hundreds of thousands of resumes that they wou