he tries to shatter the sacred guarantee that has protected generations of seniors. joining us now, ohio congressman tim ryan. he is on that same budget committee of which tom price is the chairman. is also running against nancy pelosi. what is your reaction to chairman price being selected by donald trump for health and human services? well, i ve sat on that budget committee for the last six years with dr. price, and he is clearly an advocate of repealing the health care bill, prief tieding medicare, he has a long record of doing that. we watched him lead the charge and try to repeal it 60-some-plus times. depends on how you re counting, and now he s, i guesses going be the director of the health and human services. and he will have a big fight on
chairman price being selected by donald trump for health and human services? well, i ve sat on that budget committee for the last six years with dr. price, and he is clearly an advocate of repealing the health care bill, privatizing medicare, he has a long record of doing that. we watched him lead the charge and try to repeal it 60-some-plus times. depends on how you re counting, and now he s, i guess going to be the director of the health and human services. and he will have a big fight on his hands. you re running for the position of leader of the opposition party in the house, and it really doesn t look like there s any prospect to you being able to do much other than simply oppose the republican agenda in the house of representatives.
security funding. the next week we turned it around in the house of representatives, chairman price and a couple of others, we kicked it back to them. last week on the eve before taking off for their august recession they reconfigured the bill, made it less, but we can live with the money amount, but what they did, they changed the bill so much that it s not constitutional. bill: but i thought this is something that you were pining for. this is something i mean, you are a border district. here s what it s going to give you, 176 million for new border agents, it s going to give you 89 million for 500 customs agents, 32 million for the deployment of drones. that s just part of this package. i know it s a lot of money and democrats in the senate argue they re trimming elsewhere on the spending side, so that s what makes it decifit-neutral but why would you not be happy about this? it s not being happy. i mean, we ve been fighting tooth and nail. i have the worst district in terms of i