Is now back to work marking up gop tax reform plan. The pressure is on after that house did pass its version this afternoon 227205 with 13 republicans voting no. The house had room for that many voting no, but this is growing concern at this hour there could be trouble brewing in the senate. It all actually started right here during this show yesterday. As i was talking to charlie gasparino, news broke that senator ron johnson of wisconsin said hes a no vote on the senates current version. He told the wall street journal he did not like the plan as it stands because it was too generous to big corporations but not to smaller businesses. And now it seems Senate Johnson senator johnson could be just the tip of a growing iceberg. Not in the senate, but with big Trump Supporters who have written big checks to donald trump. In a fox business exclusionive, charlie exclusive, charlie gasparino, theres a a revolt behind the screens . Yes. And, liz, as you know, the markets up today. Liz absolut
File debate on floor action for tax reform, and cspans congressional chronicle, at cspan. Org congress. We will look at todays white house briefing. Press secretary Sarah Sanders went over the president s age of trip, and also addressed questions about tax reform on capitol hill. Good afternoon. Apologies for the delay. Its great to be back with everybody. Certainly, missing most of you who were not on the road i have seen most of you who were not on the road. A little wiggle room there. The president s historic five country trip to asia was an incredible success. He rid the world against the menace of north korea, strengthened our alliances, and showed our commitment to a free, open, indo pacific region, and took a stand for free fair and reciprocal trade. American families will be safer and more secure, and American Workers and companies are one step closer to competing on the level Playing Field they serve. Speaking of leveling the Playing Field, the president applauds the house for
During the month of december the white house will host more than 100 open houses and numerous receptions and more than 25 thousand visitors will walk the halls taking part in public tours. Speaking of christmas the president is looking forward to the senate bringing us another step closer to delivering a big beautiful Christmas Present the American People in the form of a massive tax relief. To that end on wednesday the president will travel to Saint Charles missouri to deliver an import the address to the nation on the need for tax cuts and reforms. Unemployment is already at a 17 year low. Wages are starting to rise the stock market continues at an alltime high in optimism is through the rough. Just imagine whats going to be possible when this plan passes and i think it will be a great lead into the christmas season, something we can all be excited about and without i will take your questions. Jeff. Sarah is director mulvaney in charge of the or is there still a backandforth between
Sarbanes the Alabama Company is raising their wages and giving a thousand dollar bonus. For those of you keeping track we have over 350 companies that have announced bonuses, new hiring or increased Retirement Benefits as a direct result of tax reform which not a single democrat supported. These have affected 4 million americans. The president is working to work for all americans. The tax reforms is a big part of that. As we all saw yesterday, the president is rebuilding infrastructure in america, secure decades of neglect. We are building a safe and reliable and modern infrastructure to meet the needs of the American People and to fuel Economic Growth and to help make this possible, we have a special announcement today, in keeping with his campaign pledge, the president donates his salary for further work being done. Most recently the president donated his Third Quarter salaries to help combat the opioid epidemic. And today the president is proud to donate his fourth 2017 salary to th
I am join today by jim walden, the attorney for russian doping whistle whistleblowerrer, for this work into the dark underworld of fraud in sports and what we can do about it. As an administrative aside, would like to mention that camera crews are permitted to record the briefing in its entirety. Our topic today is a russian doping scandal, a story of corruption and fraud on an unprecedented scale. It has now been demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the russian state was behind a systemic effort to dope their athletes and defraud the olympics. No one can say how deep this rabbit hole goals and how long these corrupt practices have gone on. But what we can say is that it is a microcomp of the conflicts playing out road the world. As clean athletes compete against cheaters, so do legitimate business men face off against oligarchs and governmented based on the rule of law do battle with authoritarian kleptocrats and must like at the loamics, without the benefit of the transparency,