pockets of hardworking men and women and closes special interest loopholes while sprefrbing core middle class incentives. reporter: top democrats are already predicting that republicans will struggle with addressing the tax code. my prediction just what happened with healthcare is gonna happen with their tax bill. the american people learned over a period of months, in part through efforts and people standing here how bad this bill was and they turned against it. then the republicans couldn t pass it. same thing is gonna happen here. reporter: to recap, sounds like republican leaders feel they have the votes for the budget blue print sometime tomorrow. already the fight is shifting to tax reform. dana dana: thank you very much. i had martha mccallum stay with us because there s all this breaking news. now you re held hostage in the studio. it s impornt for the republicans.
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down the road to next year. they re running out of time. final point is that a source familiar with the meeting on the white house side tells us that the president in this meeting is telling lawmakers if you don t have a counter to the three points i just laid out, bring my proposal up as the final plan for an up or down vote. a games manship from the president. we re running out of time so you have to vote on something. number two, if house republicans vote the president s plan down and we go off the cliff the president would blame republicans and say i had a plan, the republicans couldn t pass it. there s a blame game here. that s why he would do it. he can say i came up with a plan, you voted it down. it s not my fault. he can come back in january and february and say maybe we ll try something else. ed, a point, $250,000 and below are the people who would retain tax cuts. the house couldn t even pass a
speaker boehner brought up last week a plan to only raise taxes on those making $1 million or more, he couldn t even get enough of his fellow house republicans to support that. the white house reads that as speaker boehner can t deliver the votes and republicans have been blocking the president s efforts to get a deal. obviously the republicans like speaker boehner are trying to find middle ground. speaker boehner talked about raising rates on people making $400,000 or more but clearly his conference on capitol hill is not willing to support anything close to that. we appear to still be far from a deal with just a couple days to go. i m handed this piece of paper from the hill, our producer on the hill who says pelosi off camera said i think it moved us forward, talking about the meeting, and it was candid and instructive.