After months of delays, the House Budget Committee has released its fiscal year 2018 budget resolution. The plan makes progress in some areas, such as prioritizing national defense, reforming Medicare, implementing mandatory reforms through reconciliation, repealing Obamacare, and beginning to reform Veterans Affairs. However, the budget falls short in others.
form to leave and doesn t put any restrictions on the border wall. remember the big fight about the border wall. they also passed a tax bill, they agreed to a pass bill passing in the senate not yet in the house. agreed to a tax bill repeals obamacare. how did that suddenly happen? what s the difference between the past week and the past 12 months? the answer is impeachment. impeachment is the difference. these democrats are see the polls, showing that americans think that they are focused on impeachment at the expense of getting things done for the american people, especially like the voter had you on a few minutes ago to thinks that the democrats are trying to take away their vote and are not doing the things that they sent them to washington to do. vulnerable democrats are desperate to show that they are working with the president. martha: so let me ask you this. if that s true. if what you say is true. a lot of those are facts, obviously. do you think that nancy pelosi her inst
but only if you agree to cut up the credit cards. this morning, republicans wanted to freeze the debt ceiling. they made a deal. they got rid of those caps to do it. don t you remember when republicans howled to high heaven that president obama was spending us into the gutter! spending us into oblivion! president trump swings the balance of power, tweeting, without more republicans in congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our military. sadly, we needed some dem votes. must elect more republicans to 2018 election. today, he signed a bill that will keep the government funded to march 23rd, than over 2 years spent $6 million fighting opioid addiction, puts 20 billion towards infrastructure, and repeals obamacare s independent payment advisory board. but the lack of restraint has prominent conservatives serious. there s not any pretense her
that s the part of the affordable care act that makes everyone sign up for insurance or else pay a fine. ending it is a blow to obamacare, but not a death sentence. the mandate won t go away until 2019. so in 2018, business as usual. so far, nearly 9 million people have signed up for obamacare kavr coverage in 2018. almost as much as 2017. even though the trump administration cut back on promoting it. the most important thing is what insurance companies do. a lot of them just don t want to do this anymore. stabilize the marketplace because senator demanded it. there s no guarantee the house can keep a promise the senate made first. thanks to haley jackson for that report. claims the legal team is preparing appointed response to national security adviser
has been celebrating key part of the law that she essentially says repeals obamacare. that s not exactly the case. nbc news chief white house correspondent haley jackson explains. a surprised staff at the west palm beach fire house sparking the president s proud 2017 talk, emphasizing what his tax law does to barack obama s health care law. included the repeal of individual mandate, which is excessive. now, president trump is hoping for health care push of his own. promising democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care plan. we have essentially repealed obamacare. but they have not. with not much appetite to try to replace it. i think we ll probably move on to other issues. senator mitch mcconnell and other gop leaders instead point to how the tax law ends the individual mandate.