To break bread and suck blood with the president. President trump had a taste of the sweet bipartisan nectar after making the debt ceiling deal with chuck and nannes while the idea of crossing a 60 vote Senate Threshold to make cuts longterm is intoxicating by working with the dems, swap and spit with the people who would trade kidneys and grandkids for a majority in either chamber to kickstart impeachment proceedings. Fans of the president think its a stroke of genius for him to torture his own party by having pillow fights with the opposition, but the president is in need of a win any, compromise is worth the interparty bad blood and spent capital. After a botched and Embarrassing Health care loss, the president cant rely on Republican Leadership to deliver something as crucial as tax reform and that leaves people posing the wrong what if . The question isnt what if the president fails on taxes with republicans . Its what if he succeeds with democrats . Theres not a donkey in washing
With the president. President trump had a taste of the sweet bipartisan nectar after making the debt ceiling deal with chuck and nannes while the idea of crossing a 60 vote Senate Threshold to make cuts longterm is intoxicating by working with the dems, swap and spit with the people who would trade kidneys and grandkids for a majority in either chamber to kickstart impeachment proceedings. Fans of the president think its a stroke of genius for him to torture his own party by having pillow fights with the opposition, but the president is in need of a win any, compromise is worth the interparty bad blood and spent capital. After a botched and Embarrassing Health care loss, the president cant rely on Republican Leadership to deliver something as crucial as tax reform and that leaves people posing the wrong what if . The question isnt what if the president fails on taxes with republicans . Its what if he succeeds with democrats . Theres not a donkey in washington or tea juana with an ounce
Press on. Developmentshese we want to hear from you not only on this legislative effort but on the Bigger Picture of your message to congress when it comes to what the federal government should be doing on health care. Democrats, 202 202 01 republicans, 7488002 independents. If you want to give us a tweet you can do so and you can also post on our facebook page. Heres the press release from Susan Collins released yesterday after her announcement that she would not support the Graham Cassidy bill saying she has three major concerns. Both proposals make sweeping cuts in medicaid. More than 1 trillion would be taken out of the program. Both bills open the door for states to weaken protections for people with preexisting conditions. Physicians and Patient Advocates and insurers and hospitals agree they would lead to higher premiums and reduce coverage for tens of millions of americans. It was on cnn yesterday during a debate on health care that one of the cosponsors of Graham Cassidy talke
And n Northern California and southern somewhat as well. Here we are going home today, a day early, as if we have time to we have no jobs bill in infrastructure bill no common sense action on gun violence prevention, no vote on a bipartisan dream act no chip chip reauthorization and instead the president is sabotaging health care and have no information in the congress. To as you know theres theres the ryanmcconnell tax cut framework. Its not tax reform. It raises taxes on the middle class and reduces taxes on the wealthy u. S. One percent and explodes the deficit. This is what is so sad is because when i say no dream act, excuse me no state Children Health insurance program. Theyre inthis childrens Health Insurance program be paid for out of accounts that serve children, like inknock racing and the rest and want to give tens of billions of dollars of tax cuts to the he end, unpaid for. Well be talking more about their tax cuts to the wealthy later. The senate is at 1 15 . 1 15 today.
Power launch starts now. Yeah, despite the dow being down a couple of points, another record day they have added value in your money. Inside the markets theres some big movers out there twitter on face for its best day since june still down 50 plus percent since going public what a comeback. Up 13 this year shares of ethan allen down about 4 saying business was hurt by all the hurricanes retail remains wrinkled. Losing half its value after warning on profits and getting two downgrades and breaking news equifax shares taking another dip. Taking down of one of its web pages on reports of another hack well have more on this developing story straight ahead. All right thank you very much. We begin this hour in d. C. President trump couldnt get any help from congress on health care now he is using his executive powers the power of the pen to make big changes to obamacare reporter thats right. The president frustrated up on capitol hill so hes taking some limited, unilateral action on health