you. i m a lover of the water so go for it. great. yesterday, which was really funny, garrett, your reporter, ran into lindsey graham in the hallway and i feel like lindsey graham speaks for most of us with some pretty common sense. he asked him, what do you think, why are people losing races on the gop side, and lindsey graham says we got to get something done. i think you re seeing the desperation. we re built our platform is built on lower taxes and less regulations. and i m very upset that we cannot come together on a bill. look, the growth, the economic growth, has grown 3.5% almost underneath trump. and we have a thriving economy and a great market. and it s been growing since president obama took office, it has no don t get me wrong, we ve definitely seen a trump bump in the market. deregulation a positive for business sentiment. but simply cutting corporate taxes. we re not getting rid of the
accounts of every single person in this country. that said, republicans, they re running out of time to get this thing right and they simply cannot afford to let things fall apart again, but you re in luck, i have a great panel here to break it all down. starting with msnbc s garrett haake on the hill. garrett, already you ve been running all over the hill this morning. this thing is unfolding over the next few hours. what are we going to see? yes, stephanie, tax reform wasn t hard enough for republicans. it s about to get a lot harder. and not for any particular reason except that the senate has to get involved now. as we ve seen over last year, the republican controlled senate has a very hard time agreeing with itsself in getting anything done, so late this morning the senate will introduce their version of the tax reform bill. we expect to see it have a number of significant differences with what s going on in the house bill right now. some of the biggest what they do with state a
and so they re already walking on eggshells, not really sure if they re going to be able to count on, you know, full throated support of the president behind this bill. we understand that the president has committed to lowering the corporate tax rate. but beyond that, in terms of the particulars, no one s really clear if any of it really matters to him so much as just having a win at the end of the day. when you re paul ryan trying to get house members to take pretty difficult votes on this, not knowing if the president s going to sort of throw you under the bus right after you do it, that s not making paul ryan s job any easier. i m going to take a guess here. i m pretty sure the president is going to be committed to lowering taxes on pass-throughs to which he has over 500 of. we re out of time for this segment. really quick, each of you, yes, no, does this thing go through for 2017? do we see it pass? eli? i can t make predictions but based on the past nine months, i would say no
was sworn in as a justice, a trump campaign promise kept. trump also rain a campaign on building a wall with mexico. who s going to pay for the wall? mexico. and that begins our list of promises that haven t happened yet. i promise we re building the wall and mexico will pay for the wall. i promise. but the trump administration is now asking american taxpayers to pay for the border wall. is your plan still to have mexico pay for the wall? yes, they will, one way or the other, mexico s going to pay for the wall. another pledge donald trump made to voters that hasn t happened yet. on my first day, i am going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. the president tried to use his force of personality but the republican controlled senate has repeatedly failed. repeal and replace obamacare.
politics are local politics and i need to pay attention to my state and i need to pay attention to what my people need. well, look, these guys are locked in on tax reform now, stephanie. they can t they can t change the subject now i think even if they wanted to. i talked to a lot of republicans in the senate yesterday who said, you know, they already felt like the pressure was at a 10 on tax reform and maybe now it s 11. there s a sentiment of sm republicans in the house who are particularly frustrated with this. they feel like they ve gotten things done. they pass their repeal care obamacare bill only to see it die in the senate and they will be the ones more likely to be punished in 2018. most of these republican senators aren t up next year. it s the republican house members who have the most skin in the game and they re looking here at the upper chamber and saying guys, help us out a little bit here. if they can get through tax reform before the end of the year, that gives the