on wheels are among the programs that would give cuts while military spending and border security would get big increases. some democrats have called this plan immoral. never before really have i seen such a cruel and morally bankrupt budget. it dismantled our nation s basic living standards, which americans have turned to for decades. this budget you know this it will push millions into poverty and over the edge. shepard: milk mulvaney said balancing the budget shouldn t be delayed. we can balance it the proper way, printing money or have someone else that won t lend us money do it under certain
going to take the bill as is. doesn t have 50 votes. if he doesn t have 50 votes. good point. steve rattner, your thoughts? a couple of things. first of all, remember that while the white house may be trying to make this into ryan s bill, mulvaney and price were very close allies of ryan. the white house deeply involved in drafting the bill and certainly signed off on it. certainly i think kasie s point is right, they are between a rock and hard place they can pass the senate, hard to pass in its current form and equally hard to imagine what s it likes when it goes back to the house. i don t think there s ever been a time in our history where we ve taken a major social program that s been in place, that people are benefiting from and yanked it away. this would be something without precedent in american history. so i think i would probably take the under on the odds of whether this thing ever emerges in anything like its current form
and substantively correct is really vast right now. really vast. the divide between house republican leaders and white house in reaction to this. tom price and milk mulvaney walking to microphones, to talk to reporters. saying we haven t read all of it but we reject them. this is not the deal. this is not what president trump planned to do on the campaign trail. if you listen to speaker ryan, this is exactly what he s been trying to do for his career. this is what the conservative republican party wants. i think that, if anything is going to cause this bill to fail is going to be the white house saying forget it. we can t do this. another layer on top of that, breitbart with its connections to steve bannon in the white house taking this moment. today. to stick the boot into paul ryan s side by leaking this audiotape of ryan distancing himself. they were out to get ryan. all of a sudden another kind of
while the white house withholds what, if any, evidence it has to back up that claim, republicans are working to counter a health care problem, just a little one, 24 million health care problems in fact. that s the number of americans cbo says will lose their health care a decade from now under the gop plan. joining us now this morning vice chair of the intelligence committee senator mark warner, plus white house budget director milk mulvaney. andrew cuomo and the massive storm that triggered a state of emergency shut down much of the northeast. good morning, everyone. welcome to morning joe. joe has the morning off. with us on set on capitol hill senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin, political analyst and co-author of game changer, associate editor of the washington post and msnbc analyst eugene
the president-elect wants to move away from the policy where the united states recognizes one china, meaning that taiwan, not a separate wanindependent state. but this will be closely watched in the early days of the donald trump administration. on monday, three people coming to trump tower, rumored to be considered for posts in the administration. among them, debra yang, a current u.s. attorney in california. and two south carolina politicians, representative milk mulvaney and katherine templeton, a rising star. she s on the short list for nominee for governor in south carolina as, of course, the current republican governor there, nikki haley, is going to join the administration as the u.n. ambassador in january. of course, monday trump is expected to announce that