joining me to weigh in, arizona congressman sandy biggs. nice to be with you. i want to ask you if this version hits the forest floor what will happen, but if your area of expertise. were you surprised when you heard john mccain would be voting no? not really. the bill has problems, he was consistent how he voted no last night, he is asking for regular order and working with the democrats on this. that is consistent with the skinny budget. the bill has problems. say in a hypothetical world it goes through the house, members of the freedom caucus like your self, what would they not like about it? they don t like we are talking about we don t know what it will look like yet. what we are not going to like is
be on that court for decades to come very likely, and that s a huge deal. the best days of donald trump s campaign as it related to unifying the republican base was when he talked about or released a list of supreme court justices. so he s done what he s promised there. nia s right, legislatively he s really nowhere. tax reform sort of stopped or certainly the talk of it has quieted. i got to i don t think you re going to see anything big legislatively. i think it s going to be gorsuch and some regulations that he has rolled back by executive order. i have a short time here. quickly, april, do you think that they ll get tax reform planned in the next, what is it, 19 days? 19 days. not 29 days. 19 days. yeah, 19 days. it may not be likely in the next 19 days because you have the freedom caucus is not happy with this. and not only that, it s just like aca, the devil s in the details with the numbers, scoring of it. so that s the problem. that s one of the reasons why in this bu
details with the numbers, scoring of it. so that s the problem. that s one of the reasons why in this budget, the skinny budget and the even in may, you re not going to see the president come up with deficit reduction or elimination because of the price of infrastructure, the price of tax reform, and also aca. so it doesn t look like it s going to happen. okay. i ve got to ask just the last thing, oliver here, with my friend, john king, does. tell me something i don t know. i think one thing that no one s talking about is how it s going to affect trump s base. yeah. i think that depends on how conservative media in large part covers this. so far, you re seeing them spin it as a huge success every time something happens, you know, the drudge report banners, america great again, and hannity has been putting on a screen all these executive orders he s issued saying he s been very busy and successful. whether it affects trump s base conservative media. thank you, oliver, thank yo
veterans administration rebuild, i never thought money was the issue with the vets, it was an organization but when it comes to school choice, betsy devos is going to get a budget to do it. steve: i tell you what, i think 2010, 2014 the obama administration knocked $100 billion off the defense budget, so this 10% raise, you can see how we are still in the hole, that could be why john mccain says it needs to be more. meanwhile some of the losers agency wise health and human services, faa, research and grants, epa which the administration feels is out of control that s costing jobs and what not and the list goes on and on including pbs and npr. ainsley: which actors are upset about it. steve: back in the day if you lived out in the rural area which i used to and a lot of people relied on public radio
obamacare repeal and replace and you get an idea what this is going to be. once again, trump is up against establishment types who want big government who want the agencies who want the power that accompanies being able to dole out this money. steve: a lot of republicans don t like the framework of the budget. you have senator who says, i have to clear up the great lakes. you have others say we can t touch this, we can t touch that and a lot of people are upset, the state department is getting a 31% cut. it s too fat. we have to be able to cut this back. guess who else is not upset for the cutback, governor nikki haley, listen, we have to cut back on the un. they are taking advantage. ainsley: i trust the president. i m running the state department, we are getting cuts too, i trust the president and we are going to make it work and it s a challenge that i m up