welcome back. tonight i m obsessed way stunning admission from a conservative commitment. admitted, wrote the tax bill to stick to the democrats. the tax bill apparently written with the goal hurting the democratic party apparatus. don t believe me? what conservative economist stephen moore advised the trump campaign on tax policy told bloomberg news about the republicans tax overall plan. it s democrats. they go after state and local taxes which weakens public employee unions go after university endowments and universities have become playpens of the left and getting rid of the mandate is the way to eventually dismantle obamacare. give moore some credit for pulling a michael kinsley-style gaffe. right? accidentally telling the truth,
bipartisan plan to save those subsidies for now. but tonight, it turns out, he s now against it. so, what s going on here? here s abc s mary bruce. reporter: it was just a week ago when the president launched a crusade to dismantle obamacare, piece by piece. then, that late night bombshell. the president cutting off $7 billion in subsidies that help lower-income americans, people who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help affording coverage. but the president argued, they were a bailout for insurers. people will have great, great health care. reporter: late yesterday, an agreement to extend the payments another two years. the president optimistic. the solution will be for about a year or two years. reporter: this morning, the senator behind the deal praised the president for getting the ball rolling. i give him full credit for engineering this bipartisan agreement. reporter: but just minutes later, the president tweeting, i am supportive of lamar as a
doug mckelway who can break down what he did this afternoon. i will tell you what he did tonight. yeah, brian, politico is reporting tonight that he plans to cut off subsidy payments, two insurers known as csr s. that would be the administration s most aggressive move you have to dismantle obamacare and ife it is true, we reached out to the white house and no comment yet. it is another side that the president s frustration with congressional inaction to dismantle obamacare. something the chief of staff john kelly acknowledged today. since the big bill did not pass, and we probably won t have a health care bill until the spring, this was a way to take care of as many americans as he could legally with an executive order.me most importantly, this order allows small businesses to pool together to buy health care coverage across state lines.
back in a constitutional matter. you know what? congress will get this deal, greg, and they ideally will do something to move it forward to make us savor. to the contrary, they will not because donald trump just said, this is so sticky. they are going to cut our mics. let the other guy have it. trump aims to dismantle obamacare. democrats call it sabotage. we will be right back. more than i want to think about. choose wisely everyone. no cheating, no cheating. then we found out how many years that money would last them. nooooo! oh no. how did this happen? how long do you think we ll keep oooooohhh! you stopped! oh! you re gonna leave me back here at year 9?
trump an independent. he s still trying to gutt and dismantle obamacare. his justice department is dismantling everything to do with policing reform and still trying to mass deport people. why does the media so quickly fall for this idea that he s some sort of bipartisan deal maker? well, jioy, i think if you could describe the media s coverage of donald trump, it might be considered the edward munch picture of the scream, outrage, outrage, outrage. in the middle of september the united nations speech will come and i think the press needs a new story because perhaps everybody is worn out of the same kind of daily outrage and, you know, there s a new narrative required. these deals give the media an opportunity to kind of see a new twist in the story. but, i mean, this whole week has been amazing. you ve seen right wing press kind of just go at trump,