we re take care of. that s what we re attempting to do in our plan. this that budget committee vote, it was a very close run thing. the vote was 19-17. some conservative republicans voted against the proposal. the republican party is deeply concerned of this. some of those members have issues that they felt like they couldn t vote for this because they didn t want to move something along that they weren t assured that we were going to make changes. the leadership encouraged us to come out with motions of directions to the rules committee, which we were able to do we asked members to give suggestion s. we debated them. some of our democrat colleagues came on with us. this is a process.
personnel updates with the exception of the ones i mentioned today. on the second, donald trump is not one to be lead down a path by anyone. i think he s he talked about the lunch with speaker ryan today that he s working hand and glove with the speaker. he talked about it last night. this is a commitment that he has to enacting healthcare. this is a process that he is committed to, wants to see through because of a goal that he wants to achieve, which is making a more patient centric healthcare system that lowers the cost and increases options. he doesn t get led down any path. if you listened to speaker ryan today, he s in agreement there s a strong partnership between the house, the administration and i think the senate so far to make sure that we get this bill done. i would argue that we ve done a good job of getting that done.
here s why. the democrat reaction is expected. it s typical democrat negativity. and it s easy to pick a pet project and say people are going to die. that is a lie. people are smarter than that. what we have is a president and an administration that is taking a business approach to looking at the budget to determine as sean spicer said those things that are inefficient, those things are duplicative and eliminating them to get real budget cuts. i m excited about the process that they are taking. again, it s a historical question. when have you ever seen significant, dramatic cuts in any domestic program in the last 30, 40, 50 years? i can t remember it, herman. you re suggesting that this time it s been proposed and we ll get
replace plan. a new fox poll shows tax cuts are a higher property than getting rid of obamacare. art lauffer is with us. he says the republicans better take nose. they have to get this bill passed. once we do that we go to taxes. after taxes the jobs will follow and we have top of our items on that poll of yours. art, you re making it sound snap your fingers and away we go. we have republican unity. it s not rocket surgery. it s not. stuart: you re ignoring politics. i agree with you entirely. you cut taxes, grow the economy. simple as pie. i got it. we re talking politics here. you have to go through the process to get obamacare replaced and fixed. you have to do that. that s not snapping the fingers. i ve been in politics a long
bring something to the table. bring thoughts. this is the way laws are supposed to be made. that s not what has happened the last six years. i m delighted we re in the process its been through two committees and will eventually come to the floor and senate. they can make more changes to it. along the way it gets better and better. sausage making is an ugly process. thanks, diane black. herman cain is back. there you are. thanks. i ll repeat the question. does it stick when you re being demagogued like this and people saying they will die if they cut this program? is middle america convinced by that argument? does middle america turn away and say, i don t want anybody to get hurt. it goes against you. it does not stick, stuart. here s why. the people that are supporting donald trump and what he s doing in approaching this budget, those people support this.