they want to let go. you keep hearing, speaking to a few of them, you keep hearing the failure to extend unemployment benefits is really striking at the heart of the democratic party. let me ask you, joe, do we know or do you know or does anyone know what percentage of the sequestration cuts are still in effect after this deal? paul ryan came on yesterday and said i guess 70%. he was throwing a lot of numbers around. 70%, 75%, 80%. a majority. they will blow the caps by $63 billion. they claim they will make it up at the end of the decade. that s the very problem. that s what republicans are saying. they are saying we ll restore these cuts now and promise cuts to the budget or the deficit later on. where is my they don t see that as working out. all right.
as a young aide to jack kemp. and he has always been considered by the right as a man of the movement. and boehner, as much as he is conservative, has never been as much in the movement. that allows boehner to step away from the specifics and let ryan make the case. over in the senate there is word coming out that mitch mcconnell is going to vote against the deal. if you have a primary member like mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, none of those guys are going to vote for it. you might win concessions, but the underlying gravity that pulls people to the positions that we ve seen is still there as six or seven incumbent gop senators facing primary challenges. i actually respectfully disagree with you there. i think mcconnell s nay vote is interesting, we should pay attention to it. he looked at the spending levels next year part of the sequestration cuts. mcconnell wanted to keep as is,
if you have a primary challenger like mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, none of those guys are going to vote for it. you might win concessions, but the underlying political gravity that pulls people to the positions that we ve seen is still there as six or seven incumbent gop senators faced primary challenges. i actually respectfully disagree with you there. i think mcconnell s nay vote is interesting, we should pay attention to it. he looked at the spending levels for next year part of the sequestration cuts. mcconnell wanted to keep as is, he wanted the status quo, ryan has conceded the cuts. mcconnell didn t want to get the fees ryan enacted. within the republican party, there is disagreement on how to handle the sequestration. some like mcconnell think it is a real hammer to use on the democrats to get things like
sequestration cuts? well we are going to get a better sense of that, if, when this passes, when it goes to appropriators. they will divvy out what agencies and accounts will increase expectations they will do a level increase across the board. defense by and large gets a, a reprieve. they were about to take a $20 billion additional hit. via sequestration. that looks like it will be put off. everyone across the board is breathing a some what sigh of relief. all of the agencies have essentially exhausted emergency funds. done as much as they could to delay as much suffering as they could during the first year of sequestration. if this hadn t, hadn t gotten any relief, at this point in time. they would have been devastated. the question is how much does 1/3 of sequestration, over the next two years get them. my guess, if i have to go back and talk to the people is that it gets them ape litt little bi time. doesn t solve main problems they re facing. ezra, what do you think the
and if you look at that from the stand point on the average of 2.3 billion, i would say. $3 trillion budget, you are talking about oh, good. we ll save 2 or 3,000 of the dollars. what are you saying it didn t go far enough for you? it is not a matter of how far it goes. it is a matter of preserving the minimal over all cuts that were made before that we were told to e that we were to build on. and one of my concerns, and i am sure it is a selling point for the democrats. we are trying to bust the sequestration cuts. and military shouldn t take the biggest cut. they are cut dramatically. but for democrats, this gets the republicans to give up on the little bit of cuts they have