made friday and will not be made because congress has not appropriated money for it. csrs are subsidies that are available to some in the obamacare exchanges and meant to lower the out-of-pocket costs for things like deductibles and co-payments. in 2016 house republicans sued the obama administration over these payments, a judge actually sided with them and said they were illegal because congress had not set aside the money. but an appeal was filed by the obama administration, and the payments continued. a week and a half ago the white house announced their plan to end csr payments to insurance companies. one day later 18 states and the district of columbia sued the administration. they claim the payments are required by law. csr payments were set to go out friday, october 20th. those states led by california s attorney general filed an emergency motion on thursday to try and prevent the administration from stopping payment.
more conservative bill. rick: we will have more on this tax reform plan later this hour. garrett tenney, thank you. on capitol hill, a new bipartisan deal to overhaul health care and revive obamacare subsidies gaining support in the senate, but it could be doomed in the house as some republicans there want the focus to remain on repeal and replace. here s senate minority leader chuck schumer. this is a good compromise. it took months to work out. it has a majority, it has 60 senators supporting it. we have all 48 democrats, 12 republicans. i would urge senator mcconnell to put it on the floor immediately, this week. it will pass, and it will pass by a large number of votes. we have a very good deal, mcconnell should put it on the floor, it ll pass. rick: ellison barber has more on this from washington. reporter: rick, the battle over cost-sharing reduction payments or csrs is not new, but it is heating up. an administration official tells fox news csr payment wrs not
some seven million people will probably be affected. what we went in asking for, the court to give us an emergency ruling to stop what the trump administration did last week or a little bit more than a week ago because it was supposed to, under the trump administration, take effect immediately under their order, and we can t afford to have that kind of uncertainty. reporter: it s one piece of a health care fight that started long before president trump stepped foot in the white house and is far from over. i think on the csrs, what you re seeing the president say is, look, i would be okay with making these payments if i get something for people in exchange, if i get something that actually helps people. reporter: president trump is set to attend a policy lunch on capitol hill tuesday with senate republicans. the president told fox s maria bartiromo he still thinks he can get the votes to repeal and replace obamacare. rick? rick: ellison barber in washington. right now police in
think that s one of the things also that got trump so many of his supporters in the 2016 election as well. rick: you also mentioned his chief of staff, john kelly, and the president was adamant and strident in his defense of kelly in that interview yesterday. where do you see that going this week, this whole dust-up in washington? well, it s certainly a controversy that the white house has not succeeded in muffling. and it doesn t seem like they re really interested in muffling it. as i mentioned, trump was tweeting about it earlier today. it s in its sixth day, all these issues about the niger ambush and the ongoing criticism he s gotten since his press conference on monday during which he used the, he came out and basically implied that other presidents hadn t, like him, called the families of fallen soldiers. so i think that this is something that s going to continue into this week and, obviously, his full-throated defense of john kelly shows
things have gotten worse. ods in broad daylight have become common place. in august during a phone conversation with the president of mexico, president trump called new hampshire a drug-infested den. the state s lawmakers didn t like the harsh words but admit they need assistance, repeatly promised during the presidential campaign. and we re going to help the people that are so badly addicted. rick: but that help, specifically federal funds for treatment programs, has been slow to arrive. really right now if it wasn t for, you know, private donors, we certainly wouldn t be doing safe station. i m pretty certain of that. rick: safe station opened the doors of every manchester firehouse to any addict desperate for help. the program drew national attention and an invite to the chief for the first lady in washington. she showed a lot of compassion and wanted to understand the depths of the problem and kind of see what we re seeing on the streets which was encouraging. rick: since it