the obamacare thing might be enough to get it lifted out. but the problem with that is, if you lift that out, the obamacare repeal individual mandate makes this better for long-term debt and deficit. but there are at least three, maybe four strong fiscal hawks there. corker, flake, langford, and young people don t talk about. but they don t want to add to the long-term deficit. all of this stuff will add to the long-term deficit. to the extent they re serious about being deficit hawks, they re going to be noes if you take out that base. i want soto say once again, works days. matt, basel. thank you. happy thanksgiving to you both. still ahead, everybody. my thoughts on the valuable lesson one man shares after admitting to harassment in the workplace. we ll be right back.
thin majority and only afford to lose two votes. but already wisconsin s ron johnson says he is a no vote and several others are on the fence. here is maine senator susan collins. i want to see changes in that bill, and i think there will be changes. there s some provisions of the house bill that i like better. but the biggest mistake was putting in a provision are from the affordable care act into the senate bill that s not in the house bill. and e hope that will be dropped and i hope that will be dropped. arthel: both senators from arizona are among those not fully onboard. joining me now, arizona congressman trent franks. congressman, thank you for joining us this afternoon. happy thanksgiving. thanks for having me on. arthel: thank you. and i want to jump in there on senator collins. as you well know, her vote is needed to pass the gop legislation. and you heard her saying that she would like the obamacare individual mandate to buy health insurance either included in
and perhaps an opportunity to weigh in on the news that china is now sending an envoy to north korea to restart the talks, also expecting, as you said, the president to talk about his accomplishments. he did tweet this morning that there are friendships and benefits from the asia trip that will go on for years to come. meanwhile the president is expected to go up to capitol hill tomorrow to talk to congressional republicans about their tax plan, and that, of course, has been complicated by the news that the senate tax plan is expected to include the provision that would basically end the obamacare individual mandate. the big question on everybody s mind is about roy moore, the alabama senate race and what the president is going to do about that. of course the statement so far from the white house has been if the allegations of misconduct of
randomly kill four others. welcome to early start, i m christine romans. dave briggs here, 4:31 eastern time. we start with weeks saying they didn t want to revisit the health care debate. senate republicans decided to do it any way. the revised gop tax bill released tuesday features a repeal of obamacare s requirement that all americans carry health insurance or pay a fine. republicans on the senate finance committee voting unanimously to scrap the so-called individual mandate. now conservatives in the house are lobbying their leaders to add a repeal of the individual mandate to the house republican tax bill. the house begins debate on that bill today with a vote on the sweeping overhaul of the tax code in the house scheduled for tomorrow. here is cnn s phil mattingly. christine and dave, for weeks it s been on the table and for weeks republican leaders made very clear they don t actually want to actually put it in the tax reform bill. and yet, it s there.
finance committee voting unanimously to scrap the so-called individual mandate. now conservatives in the house are lobbying their leaders to add an individual mandate repeal to the house republican tax bill. the house begins debate on that bill today with a vote on sweeping overhaul of the tax code scheduled for tomorrow. here is cnn s phil mattingly with the breakdown. now, christine and dave, for weeks it s been on the table and for weeks republican leaders made very clear they don t actually want to actually put it in the tax reform bill. yet, it s there. at least in the senate version. that s the repeal of the obamacare individual mandate, something that the congressional budget office would release those with health insurance by 13 million and introduces what s been a politically toxic health care debate back into play for senate republicans, one that led to so many legislative failures over the course of the last nine months. so the big question is, why are they doing this? h