hasn t been completely released yet, but i think we ll have the ability for the president to start building the wall with this bill. we ve got wins for the president, but you want to talk about what s driving our debt, number one, i don t think tax cuts are going to blow a trillion dollar hole in there. economic growth is happening, and we are going to ultimately have less than a trillion dollar deficit. saving medicare from bankruptcy bankruptcy laura: i got that, but congressman, we ve got to be honest with the american people. you know i adore you, but we have to be honest with the american people. planned parenthood will be fully funded in this bill, correct? not fully funded. look, they ve been getting funded for a long time. were trying to roll that back. our health care bill, which passed by one vote, would have fully defunded planned parenthood. we ve got to continue that fight. i m not dumb of that fight. i have worked closely with all the pro-life groups. we are going t
larger paychecks, thanks to new irs guidelines for employers. and blake burman usually covers for us. blake, the white house is touting this will be the fuel for the engine of the economy. how much gets into the economy and we start seeing the effects? well, you see people with paychecks now and the federal government set it up in february you start seeing 90% in your paycheck so it s going to take time to get into the paycheck, of many paychecks and have that money filter out. 1.5 trillion dollar hole here over ten years and what the administration says is, there s going to be growth that pays for that over time and they say you just heard hogan earlier in the show, you ve got these tax cuts or the bonus checks coming through and they tout that as one of the successes and the president himself says they didn t think it was going to be like that. leland: notably, they re not touting what the dow did on friday, but that part has been left out of the talking points this weekend. blake:
negotiations where one side has already set i m willing to compromise. the president has said look i m willing to support s legalization amnesty for these people for these people here illegally. but you gotta reassure us they will not bring all of their relatives with them and being able to prevent people in the future for coming with them like border security like a wall. why would democrats be against that? certainly the democrats do not want the government to shut down, period. that s our position, frankly we were not responsible for the shutdowns of the past. however, going forward, what are we to do? we did we did, or the republicans put a 150 some billion dollar hole in the money that we need to fund all government programs for the next year. that was the tax cut that we just passed last december. so we start off with a very, very difficult financial situation in which $150 billion that we were counting on to
calls her. a jury acquitted the undocumented immigrant on all charge charges pertaining to her death. the trillion dollar hole the tax cut could put on the country s finances. the tax bill today on the floor. what happened? what we saw is something that was hours of frustration building up in a single senator boiling wide open. all of the leaders of the republican party senatoring around bob corker, trying to get him on board, to vote against an amendment that was considered pro forma. the issue, the debt. the deficit. senator corker has not made a secret of the fact that he has with that.
the rules actually saved them from that fight, i think. but look, here s the big difference this year, the democrats had their turn. right? their economic stimulus bill was the stimulus bill that president obama passed. which was a disaster. it blew out the deficit and the debt and it didn t work and we suffered the longest recovery in modern history. donald trump said no i want to cut taxes to stimulate the economy. this is how you stimulate the economy. it s been proven to work before. when you stimulate the economy things get better with the government. that s just as george h.w. bush said, that s voodoo economics. when bill clinton raised taxes on the rich and some in the middle class, the economy boomed. what this is is a giveaway to their donors. the republicans have been pretty honest about that. they say we have to do this for our donors. what s amazing to me, is i helped bill clinton raise those taxes, this bill, a tax cut is less popular it s got 29% support, 49% oppositi