Says president obama s spending plan would produce significantly larger deficits than he claims. the cbo says the obama budget would result in deficits of more than $6 trillion over the next ten years. that s a trillion more than the president predicts. the cbo also says the president s plan contains more than $1 trillion in tax increases. much more than claimed by the white house. it appears you want congress to keep digging on benghazi and the irs targeting scandal. a new fox news poll says two-thirds of respondents want someone held accountable for putting conservative groups under the tax microscope and 60% favor the same for the administration s handling of benghazi. up next, why deportations are way down lately under president obama. but first here s what some of our fox afill yalts across the country are covering. fox 5 in new york with the opening statements in the terrorism trial of an egyptian islamic preacher known for having hooks instead of hands.
Those with compromised immune systems are more likely to pick up an invection in a hospital. that s not because hospitals are bad places. that s because you put a lot of sick people together and you re going to spread infection around. so why would the administration pay hospitals so much more? it has to do partially with the lobbying power, right? so hospitals are bigger corporations. but hospitals argue their costs are greater so they have to be paid more. a bipartisan house bill, however, would force equal payments no matter where a patient is treated, and one insurance company, high mark blue cross blue shield in pennsylvania is taking things in its own hands and will now pay the same amount for the same procedure regardless of where it is performed. bret. jim, thank you. depending on how you look at it, a fascinating and confounding exchange tonight about the obama budget. senate budget committee top republican jeff sessions did everything he could today to get
Unfolds. that moment captures what is happening. one mistake and this goes up. president s obama budget is arriving on the hill and sparking aim from paul ryan who is taking at the aim on the poverty programs saying the war on poverty and failing the poor. john barrasso is here. i appreciate your time. the president s budget, i know you had a look at it, based on what you have seen, will it fly? i don t think it is going to fly. the president s previous budgets have not garnerned many votes on capital hill. the president is going to miss an opportunity to deal with the debt and deficit and entitlement
Government very much when it s imemploying its district. he doesn t seem to care about women and infants getting formula. just like the dam project, a multibillion dollar project and just like former congressman who switched from the democratic to republican party back in 2009, citing obama care as a major region, but who also just happened to be upset that under the obama budget, a defense contractor in his area would be losing business. when it s helping their people. so never, ever take their word when republicans and conservatives look you in the eye and tell you thai shutting county down to government or taking money from hungry people is from some abstract principle if you want
What happened in the 1990s and talking about these other priorities the party could be emphasizing, why is it the republican party is so committed to something as specific as we re never going to raise taxes, period? why is that such a bottom line issue? i think of the lessons from 1990, 1992 and 1993. it s such a core issue. bob novak was famous for saying, god put republicans on earth to cut taxes. that lesson has been internalized. the problem is the policy challenges of today aren t really so much about tax rates as they are about spending and regulation. again, if you re a conservative. so, that s where i think there needs to be a lot more of an adjustment where the policy attention is. that hasn t really happened because we re still having the legacy of those lesson the 90s and this younger generation of conservatives and republicans are trying to focus more on those issues but they re not they re not at the peak yet. i think if you actually look at the evidence, you don t