senators to try to come to a consensus bill that would put in statute, in law, the protection that the daca beneficiaries, about 800,000 of them, previously enjoyed. we ve got a lot of other end-of-year issues here that haven t yet been resolved. we have about 9 million children who benefit from the children s health insurance program. that ran out three months ago and states are going to have to begin shut down health care benefits through that program. community health center funding has run out. that s also something that needs to be extended. and there s a program that helps our intelligence community, the fisa program, that also runs out at the end of this calendar year. there s a lot on our agenda here, wolf, that hasn t been dealt, a with, and as we get toe end of this calendar year, there is a risk that a miscalculation or a failure to negotiate in good faith between the parties could lead to a government shutdown, which i think would be a big mistake. you think all of that l
the house. you would have thought they had have crossed all the ts and dotted all the is, 570-page piece of legislation. ron brownstein, the legislation, though, the bill not very popular. our new cnn poll says 33% favor the gop tax reform plan, 55% oppose, 11% unsure. what s your analysis of that? well, it s just hard to overstate how unusual this is, where we are. i mean, ronald reagan got two dozen republican senators to vote for his tax cut in 1981 democratic senators, excuse me. george w. bush got a dozen. donald trump has not been able to get a single democratic senator to vote for this, even though ten are up in states he won in polling. this is not only significantly less popular than earlier tax cuts like the 1981 and 2001 ones, like i just mentioned, it s also less popular than the 1993 bill clinton tax increase. and it s significantly less popular than the affordable care act was, when it was passed. when it was averaging at around
we re following the breaking news, a surprise delay in the expected passage of the republican tax bill. we re standing by for a senate vote tonight, but the house of representatives will have to revote on the measure tomorrow, after some technical provisions were discovered to violate rules. let s dig deeper with our correspondents and specialists. and matt, very quickly, is this going to make much of a difference? the revote tomorrow morning? the president will still get the legislation he wants. he ll sign it into law and that will be that? yeah, there s not going to be any changes in votes here. it s more of an embarrassment, thing, for house republicans and senate republicans. and it reinforces the idea that this was a rushed thing. that they didn t check with the senate parliamentarian before the house voted. it also reinforces the partisan nature of this. because the whole reason they re having to jump through these hopes is to crash that 50-vote threshold with all republican v
i use herpecin l.re, it penetrates deep to treat. it soothes, moisturizes, and creates an spf 30 barrier, to protect against flare-ups caused by the sun. herpecin l. breaking news tonight. a new snag for republicans as they try to push landmark tax reform legislation across the finish line. the senate is nearing a vote tonight, but it turns out that that will not necessarily be the final vote. the house of representatives will have to hold a second vote, because some technical changes to the legislation are now needed. joining us now, democratic senator, brian shotts of hawaii. senator, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. will the revote in the house have any impact, do you believe, on the passing of this tax reform bill? i doubt it.
most surveys that i ve seen nationally, suggest that a majority of americans dislike this bill, and they believe that it is designed to benefit the wealthiest. that it will benefit donald trump, president trump, personally. and that it will benefit corporations, but not the middle class, which is what president trump campaigned on. we ll have to see. we ll see the actual impacts and then the american people will judge for themselves. when the tax reform legislation goes through, what incentive do you believe there will be for the president to accept a deal down the road, a bipartisan deal, on obamacare, cost-sharing, subsidies, for example, or to protect the 700,000 or 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, the daca legislation. do you think he will go ahead and accept those commitments? i don t know. i hope that he will. president trump, when he announced that he was going to end the daca the deferred program, said that he wanted to see some bipartisan legislation to address it. and there have