president trump is still the president. he s given us a great christmas present here with the usma agreement. we ll figure it out. good to see you as always. roger marshal is a republican from kansas and he s on the house committee on agriculture and science space and technology. thank you, sir. the senate just passed part one of two of the government funding packages. it passed 71-23. the senate expected to pass the second part today. both measures were passed by the house. they go straight to president trump s desk for his signature. the white house has indicated the president will sign it keeping the government open. two years ago president trump signed a sweeping tax cut plan. law. it s been great for business. today s tax cut tracker how some companies paid no federal taxes at all. my colleague stephanie ruhle her interview with michael bloomberg is next. we cannot let society go where people can t afford to eat
we re now, again, it appears that he supposedly broke. that we are in a manufacturing crowe joins morning joe. our conversation with the uniu they said, no. recession. songwriter next. r conversation songwriter next. union members and workers are and he was angry and upset for fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. going to allow him to do that. the financial times and other if you look at the tax cut newspapers media outlets blaming days about that. also claiming that it was one plan, it gave hundreds of more example of how in the trump s trade war with china millions of dollars to general motors and yet they re still immortal words of rodney causing manufacturing to decline across the globe. and here a strike over the shutting down plants across the dangerfield he don t get no. closing of several u.s. plants. midwest. they re still being reckless. no respect and no organ, he made that clear in that quote. the stakes for donald trump in in the eyes of the worke
get re-elected because of the economy on top of everything else, i m will to take more are of a risk as a voter in terms of who i m supporting. i think that s going to be the real interesting thing to look at. if you re a candidate running on the democratic side, you make the economic downturn one of your platform issues. you talk about his failed tax cut plan. all the promises he made in 2016 to working-class voters in manufacturing swing states saying i m going to improve your lives. i m going to make the economy so much better for you. well it hasn t happened and now they re starting to feel it in their pocketbooks. this is a real opening for democrats, but it s also going to be interesting to see how this particular statistic plays out in a democratic primary. felipe, always good to have you. jonathan, you could do dugg, dude gotta go. i know he was deflated when i said it didn t work. it still works whether an acronym or full out. thank you. all of these great political mi
want a stlugs that basolution t. the right voters decided to burn the house down and bring in an outsider and what you saw was policies that may well exacerbate over time that like the tax cut plan. you see the government spending that s going on at the same time that the revenue is being reduced. that will create some problems. you see all of that and there s still this detachment between the pub llic wanting to see structure reforms and washington not responding in ways that actually seem to fit the public. in terms of reducing wealth in inequality. the lens will argue you can make things more equal.
california because he was convinced the state was doing something wrong. it turned out he never ordered fema to do anything of the sort. last fall, trump boasted about a new tax cut that he and republicans in congress had come up with. they were putting the finishing touches on it. they would be unveiled before the election. no one in congress had any idea what anyone was talking about. even white house officials were stating they were mystified. he said, quote, i m not going to comment on whether it is a real thing or not a real thing. trump talked about it at his rallies. it was a major applause line you may have noticed there was no new tax cut plan. he likes to say the border wall is being built or has been built. one time they even put up a flack on replacement fencing