read it. members of congress haven t. taken $8 hldsl billion for these people who have been put into the high risk people. the conservatives have said we are looking at least a $20 billion shortfall. and liberals say it s closer to $100 billion. while donald trump isn t as into the health care as he is into the tax cuts, he needed this in order the make the tax cuts work. otherwise it s too big. didn t hold up. i think we have catherine s piece from today. what do big foot and moderate republicans have in common, to be sure, among the general population, moderate republicans are yes, you don t get to call
nancy pelosi about obamacare said let s pass and it read it later. that most haven t read. the members of congress. right. doesn t matter whether we have read it. members of congress haven t. taken $8 hldsl billion for these people who have been put into the high risk people. the conservatives have said we are looking at least a $20 billion shortfall. and liberals say it s closer to $100 billion. while donald trump isn t as into the health care as he is into the tax cuts, he needed this in order the make the tax cuts work. otherwise it s too big. didn t hold up. i think we have catherine s piece from today. what do big foot and moderate republicans have in common, to be sure, among the general population, moderate republicans
in the u.s. senate on these health care issues. and, yeah, it may be a while before there is something on the books. we know in the grand scheme of things what trump wants to do. trump wants to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. certainly tort reform will be part of that. so i would like to see it happen piecemeal. i would like to see them take bits and pieces of it and do it that way instead of one big bill where you try to do everything at once. i think they re about to leave i think they re about to leave a lot of people the balance there is millions of people who have health insurance who have never had it before. there is millions of people with preexisting conditions that want to know what s going to happen. and republicans in congress haven t answered any of those questions because there is no plan there is no plan to replace the affordable care act. and they need to protect what s in place because there is millions of people whose lives depend on it. okay.
can work together and accomplish these things, namely lowering tax and reigning in government spending but the white house democratic leaders in congress first will have to prioritize. it is time to choose struggling middle class families and small businesses over the demand of the liberal base. it is time to get serious. they are saying despite what the president is saying about lowering taxes, that democratic leaders in congress haven t gotten the message, guys. bill: mike, thanks. you re going to be busy today. mike emanuel leading our coverage there. meanwhile the bush-asia tax cuts set to expire the 31st of december. if you were to keep all of them, it would cost about $4 trillion over a ten-year period. a permanent extension of only the upper bracket tax cuts would cost about $700 billion over the next ten years. if all the tax cuts expire, a person who earns about $30,000 a year would see an increase of $771. a person who takes more than $100,000 a year home could see an increas