describe it. revenue. that s the primary issue, brooke. no question about it, republicans are opposed to the individual mandate and obamacare altogether, but republican leaders despite president trump calling for this, despite several rank and file members of the senate calling for this have been very wary of including this in the tax proposal for one primary reason, what happened to health care reform. they don t want a repeat of that. because in their view the tax reform process it s already moving through the house, it s moving through the senate committees right now has actually been going very well. there was only one way this was going to be added to the bill, that s if they needed money. we ve gone through this a couple of times, brooke, why this actually adds money. according to the cbo this will be $338 billion in deficit savings. why is that? fewer people will enroll in obamacare exchanges and the government will save more money on exchanges and fewer in medicaid. $338 billio
and need to get to yes. they have submitted proposals to help them get on board. but how do you thread that needle and say, use some of the deficit savings in the cbo report to give more money to opioid rehabilitation, drug addiction to bring the moderates on board who are worried about medicaid cuts while also not alienating conservatives who want very conservative policy when it comes to regulations. that is a needle they haven t been able to thread. it s very clear that they are very far short on the votes. the big question now is, what s going to change? the idealogical differences in the conference? those aren t changing. the demands? those aren t changing. so what s going to bridge that very real divide right now? that s the open question they ll try to answer by the end of this week. will they be able to do it? that s an open question. phil mattingly, appreciate it. i want to bring in the panel. kristen and bakari sellers.
these are our families that are being impacted. let s, please, get it right. reporter: senator murkowski not the only ones raising questions. and on some positive note if you want to take one from the cbo score, it included the senate bill would have $321 billion in deficit savings over the course of a ten-year period. that s more than $2 hubbe00 bil from what the house had. they have to match what the house had in deficit reduction to move the bill forward in the u.s. senate. that means majority leader mitch mcconnell has about $200 billion to work with, money to hand out, perhaps more medicaid spending for senators worried for medicaid-expansion states that aren t happy with the gradual phaseout. any number of different issues opioid funding, those things. that s something mitch mcconnell can work with. the question as they try and target a vote by the end of the week, can they get 50 votes? as of monday, as of tuesday morning, they re not there yet, guys. thank you very much.
he gave himself space to bring people onboard. deficit savings definitely gave him space to throw more money around. if i wake up tomorrow and see a couple senators have been asw p assuaged and more millions for opioid funding and can go home and vote yes, that s not going to be beyond explanation, because of the way mcconnell sort of maneuvered and set this up to sort of change at the last minute and try to bring people onboard. true, look at a number of defectors, you just don t see how they can get it over the finish line, and dinner with pence is not going to change things. goodies like i m talking about where people can go home, say the bill was bad but i got it better. so, errol, our jim accost is speaking from the white house said we re right on the threshold of losing health care and acknowledged if they can t get the votes there this week they ll move on. the white house will move on to tax reform.
hand the republicans are criticizing it saying the cbo is not a good indicator on how it will make its way through the american public. they are pointing to positive aspects of it, including 200 billion dlarls in deficit savings. that could be a carrot mitch mcconnell uses to get it back into the bill that may satisfy them. that is what we are looking for in this 1:00 meeting. what exactly can mitch mcconnell do to bring them together to come up with some sort of solution to the health care problem and get it done by friday? you mentioned house speaker, paul ryan, skeptical of the cbo. one person he is not skeptical of is mitch mcconnell. listen to what he said this morning. i would not bet against mitch mcconnell. he is very, very good at getting things done through the senate, even with this razor thin majority. i have every expectation that is