you wouldn t benefit from your tax cut? i don t benefit. in fact, very strongly, as you see, there s no i think there s very little benefit for people of wealth. president trump is pushing ahead with his next major agenda goal. tax reform. while his claims, while he claims his plan is getting great reviews, it s also showing contra di contradictio contradictions. we look at the true imfact. what what about the president s claims this is really a tax break for middle income and working people and his big claim that there s little benefit of people of wealth, people like me, he says. the proposal to eliminate the estate tax alone only benefits the super rich because this year the estate tax only gets paid by
grappling with another cabinet shakeup. tom price resigned after it was learned he spent more than is $1 million of taxpayer money on his travel. a revelation that infuriated his boss, president trump. the president campaigned on the promise to eliminate the waste and prupcorruption crippling d.. price slammed spending when he was in congress. i think we made it halfway, cut it from eight to four jets. now we need to cut it from four jets to zero jets. this is just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amuck in congress right now. irresponsibility run amuck. let s bring in former senior adviser to the bush chainny administration, robert. let me chart with you. the question you ll be expecting
to his base? what are your thoughts? this is trump. you saw him on the campaign trail and president he s always going to be counterpunching. i don t think it s a move toward his base, i just think his reacting toward criticism of the federal government s response. but there s a sort of sense of racism in it, isn t there? would you agree? i ve talked to the members of the congressional hispanic caucus. they said if puerto rico was a state, the response would be different. the perception is a reality in politics. this is going to take forever to clean up, because remember, before the hurricane hit there was a massive debt problem in puerto rico. this is only going to make it that much worse. so the administration and puerto rico will have to work together for months if not years to solve all these problems. raul, i see you nodding there on the question of whether there is a racist undertone to the way that president trump is dealing with this?
and in a sort of loose ethics i think that probably runs amuck in the white house. i think at worst they are doing this because the example comes from the top. look, we see president trump every single weekend go to m mar-a-la mar-a-lago, and bed minister, hold meetings at his hotels and government courses where he s not just doing it at taxpayer expense but profiting from it. i think one that s the example set from the top, no kidding. and no surprise that the millionaires and billionaires he s stacked his cabinet with feel free to emulate that example. there s a new poll by cnn that just came out. it shows that 37% of americans approve of trump s handling of the presidency. and 49% believe that pro athletes should stand for the national anthem. christy, does that 49% number on the anthem mean the president is on the right side politically on this issue? well, there s a deep, deep
11 days after hurricane maria. back to you. a race of life and death. thank you. joining me now senior digital ed nowhere for npr s latino. when president trump says puerto ricans want everything done for them. what do you think latinos across the u.s. are hearing when he says things like that? it s a distraction. i m more focussed on because i m a puerto rican journalist born and raised. i m for focussed on the bigger news no one is talking about. that s the rising death count. you mentioned it, but that s the center of investigative journalism. they came out with a story on thursday. the reporting is legitimate. the numbers are the official government tally is 16 when, in fact, it s not. and the sources are there.