Congressional Budget Office releases its cost am sis on the proposal. Its expected to show fewer people covered than under obamacare. One very vocal critic of this bill is a republican, republican senator rand paul, he and Speaker Paul Ryan made their arguments earlier today. I think its basically obamacarelite, keeps the cadillac tax forever, the tax on good insurance. It keeps the individual mandate, republicans complained for years, they didnt like that you pay a penalty to the government. Instead of paying the penalty to the government, you pay the penalty to the insurance industry. We made a promise to the people who elected us we would repeal and replace this law and basically this is what we are replacing it with and were now keeping our word. Democrats are accusing republicans of fast tracking it without hearings in the senate. Intelligence officials in Congress Want to see the evidence to back up President Trumps claim that he was wiretapped last year by his predecessor. They
before the congressional budget office tells us how much the white house bill is going to coffer and how much it will cost. lonnie cheyne is joining me via skype from california. you support this new legislation, you call it a good start, but does this division that we re now seeing within the gop concern you at all? it is a little concerning, ana, i think some of the criticism is a little bit too stride dent. the notion of calling it obamacare-lite, whether it s a tax credit to help those who are uninsured and uncovered, the big is not perfect by any means, but i don t think it s being advanced by rand paul and paul ryan saying what they re saying.