all seems beautiful to me. kansas republican governor sam brownback is so proud of his tax plan he s publicly advising donald trump adopt it for the nation. but as economists have reported for years, that economic vision appears to be failing spectacularly in kansas. the massive tax cut blew a massive knoll the state budget and now a $350 million deficit is expected to grow. the state s credit rating has been downgraded twice and falling cuts to higher education and medicaid brownback used around $2 billion designated for highway funding to cover the budget holes. meanwhile, tax cuts have done little to jump start kansas s economy overall. growth for this year projected to be flat compared with 2% gdp growth nationally. today we got one more economic indicator out of the region. brownback claimed in 2012 you could measure his kansas
that s why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. polident s unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day. kansas republican governor sam brownback is so proud of his tax plan he s publicly advising trump to adopt it. it appears to be failing spectacularly in kansas. the massive tax cut blew a massive hole in the budget now a $350 million deficit is expected to grow. the state s credit rating has been downgraded twice. he used $2 billion designated for highway funding to cover the budget holes. the tax cuts have done little to jump-start kansas economy
you should see congress. the problem is they don t have much time to do it. it s the case this year. on friday, highway funding runs out. that s the first deadline congress faces on all of this. they re negotiating right now with a $300 million proposal. they have to get together and figure out a singular version. they re working on that right now. there are actual tax deductions, like the increased child tax credit, development for business and lawmakers always due at the end of the year. those are temporary but extended at the end of the year. and they have a trillion dollars worth of government funding. there are questions specifically what to spend it on, and of course, the issues known as policy riders, the ones that want to fund planned parenthood, make changes to refugee policies, other issues making their way through capitol hill. you also heard about the visa program that congress is going to make changes to at the
could really happen to you. god bless you and god bless our great country. senior political reporter manu raja is live on capitol hill. where do we go from here? reporter: today is a day of celebration, celebrating 25 years on capitol hill for john boehner and celebrating paul ryan coming into speakership. after today he ll have to make big decisions about funding the house and senate this week but the problem is going to be actually figuring out the program by program funding levels. in addition, highway funding. another big issue that paul ryan will have to deal with. the question will be whether or not he can deal with the same problems that boehner had a very hard time dealing with as speaker for five years. wolf? manu, thank you very much. a personal note, a speck thank you to philadelphia for the
and in the senate. it s an agreement between barack obama and the iranian regime. it will be reviewed again a year and a half from now. it doesn t have the force of law that a treat use would have had, so his deal is unilateral deal with iran is something he can try to implement over the next year and a half and if the next president wants to look at it, is free to do it. yeah, this is clearly trying to make the case there s little congress can do. even if there s efforts on capitol hill by members in the house republican conference to try to take aim at it, this will be something that the next president will have to worry about. you know, this is a senator mcconnell has a lot of very difficult issues to deal with in the months ahead government funding fights, for instance, a debt ceiling battle, highway funding. all these things he wants to deal with. i think he s ready to move on from the iran debate once the