Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individual side of this House Republican plan. Here they are. Top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low Million Dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45 . They take issue with a portion of passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph
yeah, this is going per plan. keep in mind how this works. we laid out our two principles. middle class gets treated like this, corporate class like that. those are the principles. we left it to the house and later to the senate to fill in the details. we work with them every day and can operating with him. we didn t write the legislation. that s congress ideal. they wanted that authority and got it. so we ll see what they come up with. we re helping where with can and pushing where we can. i m not going to sort of give an opinion on what the final bill look like. we re along way from being finished here. neil: you re right about that. the senate finance committee will have their own plan and reconcile the differences. do you know at this point whether it will be a dramatic difference between what the house ways and means has come up with? i actually i get the gut, neil, there s not dramatic differences. that s why that frame work that we put out about eight weeks ago