it s not uncommon to come up with a deadline of government shutdown. they usually take it until december when you get the final package done. heather: i don t know how common it is for the president to make a deal without any of you in the room. how do you feel about that? general again, depends on what that is. if it s just an extension of what i expected to probably happen anyway. the reality is though you have a senate that still have a rule that you need 60 votes to advance anything. we only have 52. so you have to get democratic buy ins. i wish on some of these like appropriations bills the senate would relook at how they do an filibuster. make people actually go to floor instead of phoning it in. that would give us better leverage. i m not gonna tell the senate how to do their job because they re the senators and we re in the house. harris: president trump reached across the aisle and got you some of those votes. 52 doesn t always get it done on your side. let s move ahead
a lot of children on medicaid. really poor people really need medicaid. do they need a wheelchair every two years? i don t think so. i want to scale back the excess. and as medicaid director verma has said quite smartly let s have premium buy ins for the medicaid expansion states for services. how about a bridge to jobs program. brian: what does that mean? it means if you want more than the basic services. brian: okay. and have you some income, okay, we re talking about the medicaid expansion states, then you can pay a premium to get more than you would just freely be given. and, also, we need bridge-to-jobs program in the medicaid expansion states because people that don t have jobs, brian, get their medicaid card and they say i don t want to give it up. i don t want to give up that medicaid because i can t afford to take that job i won t get as good as healthcare. i m talking about medicaid expansion states and i completely understand the bill wants to peel that back.
nick mulvaney, reince priebus, they have been flooding the hill, had meetings with them, i think the trajectory is going very well for us. and says you can remove the regulatory frame work and tax credits and you will get massive buy-ins from conservative. there are certain constraints for the reconciliation process and those steeped the ararchian- it has to do with the budgetary nature to get that sustained at 50 votes. right now there are a lot of things people would like but will not get ruled with the parliamentarian, we have created
the regulatory frame work and tax credits and you will get massive buy-ins from conservative. there are certain constraints for the reconciliation process and those steeped the ararchian- it has to do with the budgetary nature to get that sustained at 50 votes. right now there are a lot of things people would like but will not get ruled with the parliamentarian, we have created a vehicle to get this done. this is the only way we will repeal and replace obamacare and people have to recognize there s a three-step process, this is exactly how the democrats enacted it and exactly how we will unwind it and implement a much better system. that s it plain and simple. i know you can t get ahead of
republicans on board, get some buy-ins so this isn t just a blue state piece of legislation. to make it durable, to make it accessible, to make it something that really is lasting, he s going to have to find a way before he leaves office to get some republican support and, as they ve been saying as part of their mid term strategy, to actually fix it. not just give lip service to fix it but work with a republican or two or three or four or five to inject some fixes into. this bill is not going away but how do you make it so it actually is acceptable to a broader swath of the country? that is politics 101 and that s pragmatism, where you actually get the other side to somehow invest in your bill. it remind me of my contact in the cia who three months before barack obama s first election said he was going to vote for barack obama. i knew how conservative he was. i said are you out of your mind?