president is creating money, reallocating money that s been appropriated by congress and citing federal law that enables him to do this, so he couldn t get congress to specifically appropriate funds for this purpose but he s not printing money. he s taking money that congress has appropriated and repurposing it. eric: sorry to interrupt but it is obligated. you have money for military installations, the treasury forfeiture funds. he s shifting it to something else. the treasury funds are not obligated. the treasury funds are unobligated and allow the secretary of the treasury to reallocate funds. then the drug program to prevent drug smuggling coming in. with respect $3.6 million for construction project, you are
close the drapes. steve: it s friday, let s go ahead there are a lot of people who are in congress on the republican side are actually celebrating on this friday because yesterday as you heard in the open, tax reform took a huge step forward, the final vote was 227-4, 205 against, the whole idea in the republican plan is to juice up the economy by cutting taxes and while the democrats say this is a gift to the rich, the cuts mean fewer firms will have to lower, will have to move to lower tax nations to make money going forward. pete: how many democrats on the bill? steve: you know it was bipartisan in the opposition. every democrat was against it and there were about a dozen republicans against it. ainsley: 13 republicans in the states that are worried taxes will go up for highest tax bracket, new jersey, california
where we are falling short, we absolutely want to make sure that veterans get the best care in the private sector and it s really building a system that integrate it is best of the private sector with the best of the va that our veterans deserve. pete: we don t have enough time, unfortunately, again, are you committed to ensuring that you remove any and all gatekeeper so it isn t the va telling you can choose and it s the veteran making the choice themselves? this is the path that we are on, pete, we are working with congress to make sure we can give veterans the best choice as possible to meet needs. this is a system that has had decades of problems and we are not going to get everything at at once but pushing for what we can to transform the system and send it on a path. pete: the swamp is fighting back. even the va has its own swamp. we will keep everyone posted on it. i appreciate it, secretary. thank you, pete. pete: obama administration
227-205, the bill is passed. a really big historic win for middle class families yesterday. this is how you make america great again. ainsley: rosy on he donald attacked you and said your life was saved and called you the a word. if you have to use curse words and name-calling, you ve already lost the argument. when republicans are in power, the first thing they want to do is give tax to the rich. what you said is not right. i came from the lower middle class. this bull crap really gets old after a while. steve: hillary clinton claiming a special counsel investigation in the uranium one deal would be an abuse of power. we re going to get an answer some time in the next few months. there s new factor in evidence now. people are looking at it. congress has issues that were previously not known. ainsley: al franken is accused of sexual misconduct. that is never funny. is it funny if it happens to your daughter or your wife? the bible is open today in
pictures 2345 and 6 while she sleeps? she accepts the senator s apologies but appears an ethics investigation is imminent and reports and whispers that franken could be forced to resign. we will see, much more to this story. appreciate it. let s talk about another member of congress. he is a republican. carlos cabrera from down in florida, he would like to join the congressional hispanic caucus, they had a vote. here is the thing, the caucus is made of 30 democrats who took a vote and decided you are not welcome. the chairman said members are concerned about his views on immigration and supported repealing and replacing