relationship between the united states and israel. obviously, what we re seeing clearly is a fact that they both are very much focused on ensuring that iran in this case does not get a nuclear weapon. that they are putting pressure on iran. and they re also finding that common ground on the issues of syria. sandra: i want to get so this budget battle looming. jess character i know this is something you are on. your latest tweet is trump in israel and his budget does some bad things back at home. we discuss it 2:30 on fox news channel. here we are. what bad thing does this budget do? takes $1.7 trillion out of entitlement spending. donald trump made it clear that he wasn t going to go after social security. that was smart. he has a large number of older voters. even people our age, we re paying into the system and we want to get something back. but it goes after food stamps, disability insurance. there s $800 billion being taken out of medicade which is a key
point of contention. sandra: take everything you just said and i give that to mercedes. is this a tough sell to the american people? it will be a tough sell to the american people. i ll tell you why. americans have gotten acustom to this entitlement mentality. the fact that, you know, especially when it comes to anything dealing with budget cuts, it concerns the american people. but we need reform at this point. the other thing we ve seen based on the other administration, we ve seen a doubling of the national debt. we ve seen the fact that we have to move into fiscal responsibility. we need to figure out a way where states who have a better sense of what s happening in their local communities are the ones that are able to administer these programs to low income individuals or to the elderly and so i think that, you know, when it comes to cuts, it will be a difficult sell. in fact, you re seeing moderate senators, republican senators, concerned about the cuts being made to medicade
maria: i see. this is the exercise you go through with all legislation. i get that. but let me ask you this because there s a feeling that after the house overturned all of the obamacare taxes, that the senate is saying we need a revenue raise. are you expecting that you will have to redo some of those taxes? you know, i would guess not. my view is on taxes, maria, that that was a part of obamacare. those taxes were raised to pay for obamacare. we are repealing obamacare, so we ought to reveal the revenue raises, the taxes included in it. i think it would be hard to get a bill through the senate that doesn t do away with the obamacare taxes. obviously, we re trying to do this within what the cbo has said the parameters are in terms of the budget that we have to work with, and a number of the things that we are doing are going to save significant ams of money. the medicade reforms save almost $1 trillion. we ll work hard with the cbo, come up with a bill that we can put on the presi
cbo score? i don t approve of it. sandra: susan? well, they can t. by law, the senate has to wait for the price tag before they can vote. i agree with what phil was saying earlier. this kind of dove tails with what senator mccain was saying. broad strokes, yes. you can get agreement with the house. mccain is talking about the promise and the pledge to repeal this that will motivate the senate to try to get things done. but the problem in the senate, as is with any legislative body, it s the fine details that i think may trip up republicans. for example, in the house, there are block grants for medicade that will reduce historically the cost of medicade. i m already hearing from republican senators who are fearful who that will leave in the hrur fp. they re afraid some people won t be be able an afford coverage. there are people afraid of people ages 50 to 64 and rates going up. even though they may agree with
the 2010 affordable care act, while 60% say the republicans should move on. yeah. i mean, the failure of the last go around, the attempt to repeal and replace, was a real hit. the other interesting thing, when the topic of repealing the bill came up, public opinion about the affordable care act went way up. it s one of those things, when you put these packages like social security, like medicade and medicare in the hands of american people, it is very hard to take it away or change it dramatically. again, there s a lot of questions. there are some big fundamental factors that are still in debate between the big sectors of the republican party. they have a lot to do with the economics of what will work and what will not. i think, again, putting this at risk for the public is not a popular, not a popular topic. so most people are thinking, safer to move along, focus on something else. we re kind of okay with where it is right now. sandra: marjorie, vince,