find a way to solve the problem for every person. they had $10 million in the house budget that was stripped out by the senate so right now for the most part, john, most of these members are left to figure out their security situation for themselves. ryan noebls, fascinating reporting. let s bring the conversation to the room, lauren, you spent a ton of time on capitol hill. katie porter, democrat from california, hard to feel safe after a town hall altercation, punches were thrown at one of her town halls. how much more do you hear that worry now if roll the tape back to preinsurrection? i think that insurrection had to have been a game changer for a lot of these members when they re back home. i covered a lot of these town halls during the health care fight when republicans were trying to roll back obamacare and i remember how tense some of these meetings would get and the security that they have at a lot of these town halls, it s minuscule. they might have a local official
let s get deep into it here. i am reading words that there are some republicans were going to vote now just like they did on the budget a week ago, over some certain issues having to do with deducts deducting some local and state taxes. i think 12 of them voted against us in the house budget. harris: the 20 no votes against the budget. 12 from the northeast because of this very issue. i m encouraged that they want to make them permanent and they are taking small business to 25%, there are other positives as well. there are only 21 days left in the congressional calendar, i am not terribly optimistic that we will see something happen this year. look, the ones that are saying they re going to vote against it, they screwed up health care, i think there s a potential they are having potential organizing a one car parade. harris: not all the people who voted no on the budget where the people who voted no on health care.
specifically the size of the deficit. the senate has a $1.5 trillion allowance to allow the tax reforms to our into the house. we do expect the house to go along with the senate. we really don t see at this point any difficulties with the budget part of this process did the challenges comments that go beyond budget and start talking with the actual piece of legislation. maria: i want to get into the legislation today. love to get a little more detail this morning. let me ask you about this first because a lot of people saying this is an honest budget. at the same time, the budget is making certain assumptions. are you making the assumption that a repeal and replace of obamacare is present here? you make an assumption of these cuts to medicaid and medicare of $600 billion. is this an assumption the repeal and replace taxes or do these numbers does not add up? the seller budget in the
bill. there have been a lot of concerns about the caps put on the defense bill because of spending limits. is that a concern to you or do you side step hose spending caps? well, the caps are a concern but we found a way to add to the overseas contingency account so that we in the house budget and the defense bill on the floor right now meet exactly the amount that the president last asked for. it s $611.9 billion. and we meet it exactly. so there are differences in how some of those funds get categorized, but the total, there is no difference. and so to have members of the president s party say they will vote against it even though we match exactly what the president asked for is a little disheartening. $611 billion pentagon budget. i know a lot s changed since i was there and working along side you and the armed services
question? i have been watching you as you talk. my god, the two of you won t even look at each other when you are arguing with one another. when you re in the house budget, you re not looking at the camera either. i have been watching this for the last three minutes. when you re in the house budget committee do you want us to dance? whatever you want we ll do. honestly, guys. listen to the question. when there is no immediate i can t fly on the wall to listen, do you take this kind of tone or have constructive conversations in committee? what sort of tone do we have in committee? in committee? we have an interesting tone in the budget committee. yes. we have many independent people who say their minds, speak their mind. that s a good way to describe it. usually jump off script. and want the best for the united states. i believe both republicans and democrats want the best for the united states.