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john boehner said i agree. but he says they were pushed into a corner and they really need to try to get this done, especially before the leadership changes. a rushed back room deal is what opponents call it. and they re not all in the house. they re going to try to vote on this in the house today if they can rush a vote through. but that doesn t guarantee at all it will pass the senate. where we re already hearing opposition from the campaign trail, from that debate in colorado. ted cruz says it is utter surrender. marco rubio says this deal is severely flawed. rand paul is already promising a filibuster. promising to try to talk it to death. there are medicare changes, social security disability insurance changes, in this bill. we ll see if it actually gets an up or down vote today. betty? all right, tracie, thank you so much. defense secretary ash carter did not mince words about the u.s. role in what was up until now a coalition air campaign in syria. carter appeared before the
money. frankly, neither side is talking a whole lot about that. and what the president would say, if he were here now, is that he, in december, put about $400 billion in cuts to medicare and medicaid on the table and john boehner walked away from that. where they would push back is, look, he has been trying to do something about spenting in a broader context. boehner walked away from that and everything has unraveled since then. there is tough questions for this president though if boehner were to say yes i will take those medicare changes, would the president take a few steps back and say whoa, let me change it or we sign on to it? that s something we don t know yet. bill: okay. but i think that the issues are separate issues and correct me again if i am wrong. you have the federal budget that mr. obama wants for next year. i think it s $3.2 trillion, right? um-huh. the republicans don t want it that high. they want it to come down 10% or whatever. that would be, i guess, crazy
money. frankly, neither side is talking a whole lot about that. and what the president would say, if he were here now, is that he, in december, put about $400 billion in cuts to medicare and medicaid on the table and john boehner walked away from that. where they would push back is, look, he has been trying to do something about spenting in a broader context. boehner walked away from that and everything has unraveled since then. there is tough questions for this president though if boehner were to say yes i will take those medicare changes, would the president take a few steps back and say whoa, let me change it or we sign on to it? that s something we don t know yet. bill: okay. but i think that the issues are separate issues and correct me again if i am wrong. you have the federal budget that mr. obama wants for next year. i think it s $3.2 trillion, right? um-huh. the republicans don t want it that high. they want it to come down 10% or whatever. that would be, i guess, crazy