paul ryan and the house is talking about entitlement reform. cuts to spending. whereas, led by the republicans including the president mcconnell, you know he has shown some interest but i m not sure what the degree of interest is for ryan with infrastructure and within the republican party. especially because it is such a bipartisan issue. different funding mechanisms might not be conservative enough for them. raising this fuel tax is something that will pay for this boost in infrastructure. speaking 2018, that leads to my next question. the midterm elections. a lot is riding on this year. especially for republicans because the majority over republicans versus democrats in the senate has narrowed. 49 ã51 i believe. when asked if he will be involved in this years election
paul ryan and the house is talking about entitlement reform. cuts to spending. whereas, led by the republicans including the president mcconnell, you know he has shown some interest but i m not sure what the degree of interest is for ryan with infrastructure and within the republican party. especially because it is such a bipartisan issue. different funding mechanisms might not be conservative enough for them. raising this fuel tax is something that will pay for this boost in infrastructure. speaking 2018, that leads to my next question. the midterm elections. a lot is riding on this year. especially for republicans because the majority over republicans versus democrats in the senate has narrowed. 49 ã51 i believe. when asked if he will be involved in this years election
a national emergency would have, you know, allowed the executive power basically to bring the agencies together to have a cohesive strategy and target this. it also could have had access to different funding mechanisms. now, public health emergency st. a lot of people are applauding it. it s more, it s going in the positive direction. but, this is coming from the health and human services secretary. it has access to fewer funds. one of the things that is important to note is that the public health emergency fund under the public health emergency has $57,000 left. that s all the resources that are available. $57,000. that s it. that s it. the public health emergency. that s nothing. 67,000 people died last year? that s absolutely right. so, congress is ultimately going to have to step up and that s what the white house keeps saying. it s congress responsibility to appropriate funds. with the president ultimately
up this is after, again, that bipartisan display that he had what with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. it is typically what he felt this job was going to be. why doesn t that square with trump on health care. this is the meanest iteration we have seen. not only does it take away certain funding mechanisms and tax credits, it replaces them with nothing. yet he said it was a great bill. i m not sure how briefed he is on the specifics of this bill or exactly what it does in terms of who it impacts. one of the thought leaders on this, jimmy kimmel, emerged as the person who is kind of winning the charge in opposition to this bill, he, for the third night in a row, has talked about how bad he thinks it is.
what about the campaign promise, no cuts to medicaid and medicare? now that s changed. only in washington would something like this be call add cut where over time there are protections in place for the disabl disabled, the elderly, the non-working poor for the children, for non-working women, and allow states to decide what they need to help those in need. sure. with less money. in their states. states get less money. not necessarily. depends on the situation. there are cuts out of it? you keep giving one statistic without reading the entire bill. i read the bill. i m not nancy pelosi. i decided to read it ahead of time before, and i m sure the senates are before they vote on it. and put it in somewhere else? alisyn what will happen, there are many different funding mechanisms at play here. what governors will do, they will have an opportunity to get block grants or stick with the current situation and as you remember in the house bill, late in the game there was