lot it s a lot of money. what is another agency you ll get rid of even in the milary, i m going to build a military much stronger than it is now. it s going to be so strong nobody s going to mess with us. we can do it for a lot less. i m coming back to the math here. nobody can seem especially since you said you re taking social security and medicare off the table, not doing cuts at all. if you take that off the table it s unfair to put it on the table. people have been paying in for years. all of a sudden you re not getting what they you wouldn t raise the rate, age of retirement? i m not going to do that. i m going to take in so much money from china and other places. look, we have a trade deficit with china of almost $400 billion a year. $400 billion. i looked the other day and said i can t believe it. in that first speech to congress, you re going to lay out the first 100 days s agenda. what are the issues? i m going to build the military bigger and bett
congressional republicans, members of the house and senate, feel like they won the election, too. trump didn t run on trimming medicare spending or says. social security. he didn t run as a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. yet many conservatives in washington believe they can enact their own agenda. if you look at history, bill clinton s first term, even president obama s first term. when you have majorities and you re in your first term, you think you can roll through policy after policy. trump didn t have the mandate in his campaign for the policies being advocated by the leadership. that s the irony, that donald trump runs this campaign aimed at the heart of blue collar, white america. now as he s putting his cabinet together, it s a feast for wall street. a series of executives. when it s manuchen, a foreclosure king. he s stacking the elite, the party the base of the party despise. let me close with this domestically what s one issue promise that he made that if he doesn
while he would talk about something like medicare or would talk about something like health care reform, he wouldn t realize what he was describing. that s what got him into trouble especially with the republicans. he was often going against the long-established republican talking points and platforms. that s where the inconsistencies rose. when he would try and dial it back and say that s not what i believe, it s oftentimes what he said in the aftermath of the comments that made it a little murkier than it may have seem initially. robert, it s trump priorities versus republican priorities, right. i think it was funny, katy, that you said trump heard himself through the republicans, not the voters. republican leaders. that s going to happen in this first 100 days. i think health care and medicare is where we may see the most. 2016 was the year of donald trump s victory. it was also the year of the shattering of the ideological consensus within the republican party. interview afte
trump won the election. when i m at the capitol these past fuse days, a lot of congressional republicans members of house and senate feel like they won the election too. trump didn t run on trimming medicare spending or social security or run as a deficit hawk. he ran as a populist. if you look at history, look at bill clinton s first term, even president obama s first term, when you have these majorities in your first term, you think you can roll through policy after poli. trump didn t have the mandate in his campaign for the kind of policies that are being advocated by the leadership. hat s the irony is that donald trump runs this campaign that s aimed right at the heart of blue collar white america but now as he s putting his cabinet together, it s essentially a feast, a moveable feast for wall street. it is a series of executives. he s stacking his administration with the ultraelite, the very people the base of the party despise. let me close with this question.
idealistic ways but not a lot of policy depth in what he was saying. while he would talk about medicare or health care reform, we won t realize what he was actually describing. that s what got him into trouble especially with the republicans. he was often going against the long established republican talking points and platforms and that s where inconsistencies rose and when he would try to work around it and say that s not what i believe, it s what he said in the aftermath of some of these comments that made it murkier than it may have seen originally. trump priorities versus public priorities. it s funny trump hurt himself with republicans. not voters. republican leaders. that s going to happen in the first hundred days. i think health care and medicare is where we may see it the most. 2016 was the year of donald trump s victory and shattering the ideological consensus in the