you are going to pass tax reform, that to me, we are only going to 3% growth? i don t understand why this tax reform isn t going to lead to more. the president had mentioned numbers like 5% or 6% growth. why are we settling for 3% growth? david: you take what you can get, and this is what the republicans can pass. you make an excellent point, and harris makes an excellent point. it is not just a tax cut or growth. it s also being very serious about spending cuts. the white house has been very clear, they will do a big push on welfare reform next year, which will continue to help with spending. harris also mentioned speaker ryan talked about social security reform and make them stronger and more viable to the government to be able to pay for decades down the road. katie: the stock market likes it. we look at another record today. it keeps going. harris: remember early on,
the bill. the challenge for lawmakers is there is limited time between now and the end of the year. the senate for example is only scheduled to be here for 15 legislative days and the house is only excited to be here 12 more days in 2017. tax reform isn t the only issue. also on the to-do list list, running the government beyond december 8th. democrats are expecting a fix for the young people brought to this country illegally by their parents. pfizer is also due for renewal and some leading democrats don t plan to make the immediate tax reform. they want you to believe that their trickle down tax breaks the rich will pay for themselves. it never has. they ll simply create jobs and take them down. neither is true. they never have. all of this has topper publicans on capitol hill, they have a little indigestion over the things giving holiday. thank you, mike, happy thanks
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right now, they aren t feeling the heat. sandra: what if it does get done? how big of a win is this? lawrence: a celebration. this could be the one issue to get republicans through the midterm and a reelection for donald trump because people want more of their money. they re tired of the government taking and abusing it and the raising debt. sandra: there s a little bit of a concern about that 401(k) issue, but they cleared the air on that, the president tweeting this morning. kennedy: you can t but those kind of limits on 4o1 kay kays. that s where lower middle income workers see any gains in the stock market as long as the federal government is manipulating the currency through the fed, the only place to make money for a lot of these investors is in the market. that s why the markets will continue to flourish if they pass tax reform. tax reform isn t just tax cuts, whatever the president wants to call it. it s not just about getting a win for the party. people don t care abou
lyfted from the existing gop play book. obamacare predated trump. tax reform isn t something he came up with. the border wall is not a policy that republicans were pursuing or talking about before president trump came on the scene. and so that that s seen as something unique to him and something the republicans would be granting him if they were to try to include that in the appropriations bill that they have to hammer out before september. in this climate a lot of republicans aren t going to want to expend political capital for something considered a trump proposal. charles which republican leader is going to gladly chauffeur this through congress. there is not going to be a thelma and luis moment. i think the threat to shut down the government was tip kaul donald trump bottom basket. at this point, the republicans in congress don t need to defy donald trump, they just need to ignore him. these appropriations bills