in maine said he thinks the 60% of maine voters who last night said that they wanted, that they supported expanding medicade in the state don t realize how much it s going to cost. governor lepage said this in part in statement. said credit agencies are predicting this fiscally irresponsible medicade expansion will be ruinant to maine s budget. he said he s not going to do it, but democrats in maine s house said they are going to fight him. dana: now that we had a lot of sort of fox news exit rolling. last week we talked about this twitter decision to expand from 140 characters to 2830. tested it out on a few people. now everybody has it. i wonder what you think about it or the voters if you asked them. reporter: it was interesting. one thing a lot of people we spoke to last night noticed right away is that the president took full advantage of his new 280 characters right away so he could tell ed gillespie that he
i think better is good. we have to improve on a disastrous system. i m optimistic. harris: you ve got senator susan collins, lisa murkowski of alaska. you have holdouts over the issue of medicade. as i understand it, senator graham s plan would want to put some money from obamacare or all of that back into the states. that would be one way that you would maybe answer to these people who have concerns. how are you gonna get them on board? i think we just have to keep working. they have situations in their state. they expanded their medicade program to take in people who are eligible to work, able bodied people. alabama didn t go that route, so we have to reconcile those things. but we re talking now. i think the attitude of getting it is starting to sink in here. i really do feel that way. harris: do you know what s interesting? i hear you saying this and others as well. that the differences that you re talking.
couple months. sandra? sandra: how hard was it for republicans to advance the president s pick to run the office of management and budget mike mulvaney? reporter: it wasn t as hard because they didn t have to suspend any rules. mulvaney did advance and now he s one step closer to a senate floor vote to become the director of the office of management and budget. but he did not advance before he took a beating from some of the democratic senators who were in that room. we have a nominee whose ideology is in direct contrast to what president trump ran on. trump told working people and seniors he would not cut social security, medicare and medicade. congressman mulvaney is on record as wanting to cut social security, medicare and medicade. reporter: as you can see, things work differently when republicans and the democrats actually show up, and now that these two cabinet these two trump nominees have advanced