rebuilding america s infrastructure and thorny issues like immigration reform and welfare reform. you heard peter doocy mention jeff flake says they ll tackle daca reform in january. he has a commitment from leader mcconnell to start taking it up in january. it has to be fixed by march. that s the president s timetable. i m being told by sources that the white house expects that there will be a four-week continuing resolution to fund government agreed on before the christmas break. they also fully expect that will include what are called so-called pay-go waivers which would waive any cuts to
what do you think? well, so i ve not seen the entire bill and ingisted it, right? but there are lots of concerns. you have to educate people on, you know, raising their standard deduction. really takes cares of lots of folks and itemization isn t as big of a deal. you lose your homeowner deduction because you get another credit. december 9th comes up. the cr runs out. this fiscal cliff, daca reform. lots of things that have to happen before the end of the year. republicans are in a squeeze and you re trying to pass this really complex tax bill. it becomes very, very challenging amanda, the estate tax, the elimination of the estate tax which benefits really the very, very, very wealthy, does that make it difficult to sell this plan? i don t think so. the way it would be messaged better is that there are essentially two tracks. there is a middle class tax cut coming and they re going to do a lot for businesses.
we have reintroduced this bill and hopeful to get it over the finish line. what we want to do is cap what our former presidents are able to receive. brian: senator, i want to bring something else up because you served in the military u general kelly now chief of staff. he was called a disgrace to his uniform by democratic congressman gutierrez for allowing the president to say daca reform has six months to work itself out in congress. not extending it wholeheartedly. what s your reaction? do you look at john kelly as a disgrace to the uniform? absolutely not. i look at general john kelly and i have the greatest admiration and respect for him. he has served honorably in our country s uniform services. certainly his family has seen great sacrifice with the loss of his son. but he continues to serve our great country in a number of ways. and currently now as the chief of staff for president trump. i think he is a great man. i m glad he is where he is.
cut a deal with democrats on tax reform would mean undermining all the principles that we care about and the things we need to accomplish through tax reform. i think it s an alignment of interest and an ability to work together to get results. the american people desperately need some tax relief and tax reform and that makes our economy more competitive in the global marketplace. leland: i want to get back real quickly to this issue about this deal. this was quoting a midwest operative. with that in mind, do you have confidence in mitch mcconnell to be able to get done tax reform, daca reform, the president has put on the list before midterms? i do and those are things we have to get done.
called words like cruel, heartless, racist, and the media also kind of brushing aside that obama s executive order was never meant to be anything but temporary. and the last one he four hours, the coverage has been the president has been sending mixed signals saying he loves the dreamers and now today they have nothing to worry about. leland: he s saying he may revisit this if congress is unable to act. there was that deadline from the state republican attorney generals who said they were going to sue, even democrats agreed that the daca executive order was on shaky legal ground. one could very easily argue, all of the media is not, that this was president trump protecting the dreamers from these lawsuits coming from repugnant attorney generals. why don t we hear that other side? i think in part because he president sent out attorney general sessions to make the announcement. he delivered a hard-line