us, save the military, one-time spending for hurricanes, disaster, get some spending cuts that will grow in the out years but we do have to go back and focus on entitlement spending. the house republicans passed the biggest entitlement reform package ever when we passed our healthcare bill. unfortunately, somebody did this instead of that in the senate and it didn t pass. we passed a budget before that that cut $7.4 trillion in spending over 10 years in the house, the problem is we have to get our other partners in government to be willing to do the entitlement reform we re willing to do in the house. maria: which is why people are surprised at you because you ve been this reform person and deficit hawk for years. i still am. maria: running the bucket but you don t look like you are. this is discretionary spending. maria: well you mentioned discretionary you re also a big boost to education 7 billion in community health centers, child care grants that was more than the disaster relie
constituents and don t worry, it probably pays for itself any way. take the case of bob corker of tennessee, the deficit hawk announced he is against any tax bill that added one penny to the deficit. not one penny he said. fast forward a few weeks and he signed on to a bill that added more and and one a half trillion dollars. that is 150 trillion pennies to the deficit. and 150 trillion pennies is good. rl remember how republicans threatened to deitaly on the debt in 2013 to prevent congress from raising the debt ceiling in the name of curbing spending under a democratic president. today most republicans are agreeing to raise spending caps by $300 billion. deficit shfefisit. and most democrats don t even pretend to care any more. so the next time you hear a member of either party on tv talk about being fiscally responsible at curbing spending and do yourself a favor and turn
is him because he s speaking out of the true progressive playbook. and before i let you go. tallahassee, it was seedy, the lobbying community in the way it intermingled with the senate president, are they going to be able to clean that up or does tallahassee have a long way go. they have a culture of being isolated. it is a state capitol in the middle of nowhere and we talk about with harvey weinstein, there are a lot of hollywood studios but this is only one florida. this is ingrained in the culture of the place. do you think the culture can change. but it will take some is time. and the other thing i have to throw up the you. we have to through up the u. great recruiting class. now it means mark richt. the championship is bust. good to see you. coming up, exposed the myth of the animal that does not exist in washington. it is called the deficit hawk. always have been. when i found out
that s why i fight. so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn t use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. welcome back. tonight i m obsessed with a mythical beast that obsessed washington. it has hundreds of legs and just as many arms and is generally colored red. has one signature trade and no moral authority, it is called the deficit hawk and we don t know if it exists. here is what the mythical deficit hawk believes, that government must never spend more money that it takes in unless it is spending money on something that it wants in, which case the spending is critical to the national security or to the
sort of pivot. we hear that in terms of temperament, i think that s doubtful. on the policy side, it will be interesting to see how much he can get down because i think there is more bipartisan buy-in when it comes to the infrastructure stuff. it s interesting. there s been reporting from some reporters who follow closely that the president feels like he hit his stride. he looks at the economy and the tax cuts in particular. and he sees that he is winning and that he s doing a great job and really feels that way and is telling people that. when you look at a republican president delivering to their state of the union, there were really republican things that weren t this there, no talk about debt and deficits. no talk about fiscal, you know, fiscal restraint. it s almost as if they got their tax cuts, and brian who is also a deficit hawk, you know, they just love their tax cuts so much. they re not talking about some of the other things. this is what the washington post says in an