Time. So in that statement that they will meet with ryan and mcconnell instead, that makes them, sounds like they put a lot more faith into mcconnell and ryan than they have in the past at least with that statement. Neil you think about it, wasnt that longing a they cobbled together this separate deal to keep the government lights on for another few weeks. Right. Neil being north of four weeks. So at the time, it was sort of like seen as a bipartisan olive branch on both sides, now gone. Thats right. The point here is, that they see the president as so erratic. They walked out of that meeting months ago you are talking about with a spring in their steps, thinking they could work with the president instead Republican Leadership. Neil i remember you, erin, having doubts about it. To your credit, you said, lets not over, you know, analyze this, say it is a sign of kumbayah. You didnt use the words kumbayah, that all of a sudden all bets were off. So everyone is it sort of retrenched back
Six key gop senators. It is interesting a mall gum. The latest hurdle seems to be a spending bill, budget bill. Not that the government lights go out but there is concern about how long do you keep it going latest talk is a twoweek measure . Do you believe that . A twoweek measure. To get us over christmas. I kid you not. We have a a chief congressional correspondent. This will be bigger issue than the tax cut thing, by and large been resolved. We have arguing back and forth today, but what do you make of this . First of all i dont think the tax deal is settled either. Today the Republican Leadership handed out three pages of differences that the house lawmakers have to look at and consider when they go into negotiations with the senate. A lot of them are small differences but those are 30 or so differences they need to work through. As for the spending bill, youre right, that will really take the oxygen out of the room for the next couple weeks. Right now theyre talking about a twowee
Live for. We have chad pergram with the latest on capitol hill. How are you . Neil very good. The house has started final debate on the tweaked version of the senate bill. They had to pull things out to match budgetary rules in the senate before we passed it in the wee hours of the morning. The house had to be in alignment. When they made the changes the house bill and senate bill did not sync up. We will have in 20 minutes, what will be the final, final vote for the tax bill. Then it will be shipped to the white house. The question is when President Trump will sign it. Neil i was asking you the question, when . I always think these things can be like closing on your house that you buy, if you dont wrap up quickly something could very, very, very wrong. I spoke to senators yesterday, chad, if we had our druthers we would sign this fast. Here is the problem there. Is a rule on the hill called capitol hill that is budgetary, paygo, pay as you go. That is important term. If they sign the
Developments and the likely tax package everyone put the proverbial john hancock on this except the man who counts the most, the president of the United States. The companies are putting the money to work before its in their hot little hands, you heard a lot about that. So is connell mcshane, doing reporting on this and from the folks at wells fargo, planning big things. Reporter thats one of the Companies Making a big move. The bill hasnt been signed into law yet and have a number of Companies Looking to share the wealth. A small sample up on the screen, there have been more that announced but you talk about at t, boeing, comcast, southwest and were outside of wells fargo location here in new york. Theyve all made some sort of announcement what they hope do with the savings that they will have. Theyre not all equal, want to talk about the banks, if you looked at industry, especially the banks that have big operations domestically, wells fargo is an example of that. They pay a relative
Thec implementation. Reporter they absolutely nailed it with this second time frame of legislation on taxes to the president s desk by christmas. There had been a couple different scenarios though over the last week as to when the president would actually sign the bill, and one of those options was that he might wait until january, until the Congress Gets back here, and that they would have some sort of celebration to start the year off with a bang. As we saw within the last hour inside the oval office. He explained it by saying he wanted to keep that promise of tax legs signed by christmas. Tax legislation signed by christmas. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said that the bill would be on my desk before christmas, and you are holding me literally to that. So we did a rush job today. Its not fancy. Reporter now, over the last couple of days or so the president has touted the handful or so of major corporations that have said they will now, because of this