republicans. tax overhaul. what about the substance, though, what is in the final plan? let s take a look. sweeping tax overhaul will lower most individual tax rates. nearly double the standard deduction. eliminate personal exemption. caps the state and local tax deductions. and eliminates the obamacare health insurance mandate. trying to figure out how the republican tax overhaul may affect you and your family, that can be daunting task. there are key financial moves that you can make right now before the end of 2017 to take advantage of these tax changes. we have a look at that. what did you find, christine? brooke, there are a few things you can do before january 1 to lower your tax bill, at least try. if you can prepay property taxes this year. this is for high tax states.
out of it. if the g.o.p. can t pull this off then it might be the end of the party. rob: it can be tricky. they haven t scheduled the vote yet. trying to get everything perfected i would imagine. there is no question that this thing gets through. there is a couple things that they can still here to negotiate on. they have talked about maybe getting rid of the individual mandate, messing with obamacare. they could get rid of that and probably get something like get mccain on get susan collins on board with that they need to work on a couple of things here what could they negotiate with to make sure this gets through. they have to be mindful of republicans that are in blue states who already have to deal with heavy taxes that can t afford to alienate their bases with anything in this tax reform plan that could make it worse for them. i would agree with cathy that the g.o.p. has to get this done. you can t control every part of the government. and then get nothing major overhauled in yo
politically against opponents, and that would be wrong. critics claim sessions ordered his prosecutors to consider a special counsel after president trump expressed frustration that he could not order the fbi to take action against the clintons. that has long been the allegation that the president is weaponizing the d.o.j., certainly looks that way but jeff sessions seems hesitant, though. no, it s not a political tool. 26 minutes after the hour. senate republicans, okay, they re trying to solve two problems at once. they re linking multitasking. yeah. or it s either crazy or brilliant. it s linking repeal of the obamacare, the obamacare individual coverage mandate with tax reform. the newest plan released late last night. will it work? what it means for your family next.
there fighting it, they would just slip everything through while we weren t looking. well, for two occasions, on two occasions ryan was unsuccessful in passing what they call the repeal and replace of obama care. on a third occasion, they were slightly able to pass it with a couple of votes. and now in the senate, the senate said it was dead on arrival. i say push it through. you must consider this goes away with the opportunity for people to have preexisting conditions to access health care. it does away with that, because it gives the states an opt out option. and that will dramatically increase the cost of health care for people that have preexisting conditions. in addition to that, the aca, the obamacare provided extensive funding for medicaid and medicare. it closed the donut whole for seniors. it allowed pregnant women to get
me, kevin mccarthy, about health care, he said, don t stress on the for do something that is good for the republican party, do something good for the american people. two questions for the democrats, who is the leader of your party? hillary clinton? bernie sanders? second question is, what is the democrats message? did they think obamacare work? did they look people in the alley? i think we know they didn t. i think we do know that. but i think you make a good point cannot raise a good point about the cooperation. obamacare, one of the big criticisms was that he was run down in a single partisan way. i think a lot of people are hoping that we, as america, have learned a lesson from a looked like it hoping we see something different from this administration. we don t know enough about it yet. i m hoping to see better things happen in the senate, may be a less involvement.