what must the members of the g7 be thinking now? the large question looming over the g7 is the instability and slowdowns that a lot of countries are facing, including china, u.s. and germany and the question of president trump s behavior. during the last two g7s, they came away feeling president trump was confrontational and angry. you have him talking about the trade war. you have european leaders on edge. president trump is doing what he has been doing. he has everybody worried for what it means for america s role in the economy. a lot of countries looking to the u.s. for trade policies and want to look to the u.s. as a leader on international trade. foreign experts tell me america has pulled back from that role. john, in many ways was this clash with powell inevitable?
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ben: amen. charles: but we know it s a typical one that congress should not be paying these things out any congressman whose involved in it should pay the taxpayers back and we should get the rule of law going. neil: all right, i wish we had more time for this actually i m very glad we don t. meanwhile 228,000 jobs were added last month so who gets the credit for that president trump has been touting the growing economy since he took office and president obama makes a speech this week saying do you know what? you can thank me america, we re on it america after this.
premiums can the republicans pass a bill? i mean, we re waiting for the cbo score. the congressional budget office, forgive me america. the congressional budget office will do an analysis of the plan and lay out what it projects, how much it costs, which groups, low income, editorially, helped and hurt the most. but when you have a republican senator, he s not the only one, saying this plan will not reduce premiums then why are they doing it? it s a huge problem. it s not just that, also the cbo numbers will probably show significant loss of coverage because of repeal of the individual mandate that s in the bill. the numbers are going to, can be more costly as well than the house bill. you re going to cause concerns from the right. the cuts to medicaid will make senators who come from expansion states like ohio, portman, has not voiced opposition yet.