trillion in savings, more spending reductions proposed than any administration in history. this budget will balance in 15 years. congressman, is that true? well, it s not likely. one of the things that they re doing is they re projecting consistent growth in the economy at 3%. there s virtually no economist in the country that s projecting that kind of growth. cb son cbo is somewhere around 1.9% over that window, so the assumptions they make i think are very flawed and overly optimistic. yeah, they do cut a lot out of spending. but what s interesting about that is the spending that the congress has annual control over, what we call discretionary spending, hasn t really risen at all in the last nine years. that s when you count for inflation. what the increase in spending is because we have a huge
not have health care. millions more i should say. let s go to our dynamic duo of reporter reporters, chris jansing and kasie hunt on capitol hill. both were listening in and chris i want to start with you. that is about the fastest i have ever seen the white house react to anything. reporter: yeah, right after the number went out, i went upstairs and they were huddled. we knew that something was going to come out. look, it was clear over the las week actually and certainly intensively over the weekend, they knew these numbers were going to be bad. i m not sure they anticipated that they would be this bad. if you go on to websites, already the headlines and newspapers across the country on websites across the country, 24 million people will lose their health care over the next decade. that s why over the weekend, you saw the full court press by so many members of this administration, including mike pence, going to kentucky, really trying to make the case that the cbo believed and many
it basically says, that we ll be right back at pre-obamacare status with 40 million people uninsured in that country. we believe that the plan we re putting in place will eninsure more individuals that are currently are ensured. we think that cbo simply has it wrong. one of the things tom just said, it bears repeating. the cbo score, assumes that if you are on medicaid today, that you choose to get off medicaid after the mandate goes away. does that make sense to anybody? you re on a free program because the plan doesn t get rid of medicaid expansion. what the cbo told you if you re on medicaid, that the day the mandate goes away, you re going to voluntarily get off medicaid. tell me if anybody thinks that makes see. you scale down we do but that s not e cbois saying it happens on day one which is just absurd.
that is more than half of that person s income. lindsey graham is responding to the cbo. let s listen. i don t think this is particularly good news. if they are half right, there are a lot of people uninsured. it does reduce deficit and premiums some. give me a chance to look at it closer. we should take the cbo report and see if we can make the bill better. where does it go now, beth? well, even on defer sicit reduction, $36 billion a year is not significant. if terms of the numbers, you can spin them until the cows come
as well as costing more for people. so it doesn t achieve anything it sets out to do. it s a clear message to the constituents as to how it s going to affect them. it has a ten year that says it don t matter to us who suffers. can senator get this bill passed to the senate? if you look at how many republicans have spoken out against the bill, senator cotton is someone i don t usually agree with b he said don t do it so fast. they are rushing the bill through. the more exposure it gets, the less popular it becomes. read the bill. they have no time to read the bill. cbo issued the report three