the republican orthodoxy since the reagan era. you know, separately from that, white house officials say they know the tax cut plan isn t polling very well right now. but they re betting, craig, that come early february, when americans finally see the impact of the tax cuts in their paychecks, that could all change. jeff bennett at the white house, kacie hunt, thank you. the white house and republican leaders in congress do appear unified around one thing, the language that they use to describe this last minute budget bill. this is white house press secretary sanders and house speaker ryan earlier today. we have maintained our position all along. we want a clean bill. no games, no sneaky things. a continuing resolution to get us through this moment to get us into next year. for more on this clean bill and some other issues as well, shannon pennypiece, white house reporter at bloomberg. jake sherman, senior writer at
people from welfare to work there, shannon pennypiece. but are republicans unified around a game plan after tax cuts? absolutely not. especially on entitlement reform. when jake was talking about how if you saw it this month or even this year was tough. when you start getting into issues like entitlement reforms, not to mention immigration, you see some major fractures in the republican party, not to mention the type of opposition you would see from democrats. i think an easy thing to go forward on would be infrastructure. a lot of people argue that s something the president should have gone after right out of the gate, to build some unit, that s an easy thing they could pick up right now. there s so much division, it s such an emotional issue and it s the same for immigration. these have sort of been the third rail of politics. it doesn t mean they shouldn t try or shouldn t do them but it s going to be ugly and it s going to be a long slog. shannon, sometimes it seems the only pe
they were promised that the national defense authorization act would be which passed under president trump, would be fully funded in the next bill. they re only going to get about $6 billion in necessary emergency assistance in the stop gap. so they re the part of the doing. it s not really the freedom caucus that s upset but, rather, that amount of pain than stepping on the story of tax relief that we haven t seen for three decades. shannon, paul ryan, house speaker ryan, saying that the next mission after tax cuts would be cutting spending on entitlements like medicare. today mitch mcconnell appeared not to agree with the speaker. listen to how the two have framed the next debate. we ll talk about it on the other side. well, i think the democrats are not going to be interested in entitlement reform. so i would not expect to see that on the agenda. the kinds of entitlement reforms we re going to be pursuing are the kinds that help make sure we get people from welfare to work.
cleared he had service here in the united states. a familiar attack that the president used often to criticize blumenthal but gives us a insight into how the president spent his morning here in rainy new jersey on twitter and watching tv. interesting, kaitlan. blumenthal responded with tweets of his own. mr. president, your bullying hasn t worked before and won t work now. no one is above the law and tweeted, this issue isn t about me it s about the special counsel s independence and integrity. thank you very much, kaitlan collins reporting for us. discuss this and more. joinings us, david chalian and white house reporter for bloomberg news, shannon pennypiece. let me get specifically, the president tweeted, david, his base is stronger than ever. is that backed up by the polls? no. there s not actually i can t find shred of evidence. didn t just say stronger than ever. he said getting bigger and stronger.
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