reconciliation rules, allowing it pass it with a simple majority, suggesting it would take 60 votes to pass in the senate. the more immediate battle is passing it through the house, which sources suggest could come next week. bret. bret: mike emmanuel, live on the hill. thanks. let s get the administration s perspective tonight. reince priebus, president trump s chief of staff, joining us from the north lawn of the white house. thanks for being here. happy to be here, bret. bret: first, what mike just wrapped up talking about, the status of health care, the freedom caucus saying they ll sign on. it is in a good place. obviously there is more people that need to be looking at the amendment, and they re reading very carefully the text of the amendment, and the effects of the amendments on the overall bill. but i can tell you, the administration is feeling fairly positive tonight about where things are at on the health care repeal and replace bill of obama care.
42% compared to 48% last month. 37% feel it is getting worst, and that s a big increase. 18% as you see staying the same. about half of you think the president is keeping his promises from the campaign trail. the rest believe he is drifting off course. we have fox team coverage tonight, mike emmanuel with what s being done on capitol hill about a possible government shut down, and chief white house correspondent, john roberts starts us off with a president who has his hands full tonight. reporter: good evening. it is far from a plan, more a statement of principle than anything. but today, president trump got the ball rolling on his intent to reform the tax code, and implement the biggest tax cut in decades. we have a once in a generation opportunity. reporter: that s how white house officials describe the tax reform proposal they unveiled today, one like past, lower for individuals and businesses. what this is about is
well, it is different different legal hurdles that you have to satisfy before you actually either renegotiate or withdraw from nafta. so those legal hurdles are one thing, withdrawing is another thing. the withdrawal is a different issue. so we re talking about steps prior to withdrawal that have to take place that the president has been talking about. bret: filling white house positions, of 556 key positions that require senate confirmation, 468 of them have no nominee as of tonight. 40 are awaiting nomination. it is on pace to be the fewest nominations in 40 years at the end of 100 days. is that speeding up, and why has this kind of been a slow process? because what you don t see there, bret, two different things. the decision-making process of what fills the slots and then the clearance process. the clearance process is a process that we can t control. we have hundreds of people in the decision-making process,
weeks ago saying it is just math. it really isn t. if you want that stimulus effect, it has to be dramatic. 20% doesn t actually put america in the international competitiveness ranking looking that favorable. but 15% really does. that will really give you that wish of confidence. for me, going back to the point of who benefits, 20% or higher, the real winners will be the already rich. if you really want to help working people, you ve got to go for the 15% rate. bret: you have to figure out how to make it revenue neutral. as you look at the polls, the president s job performance, which is fox poll 1, 45% disapprove, 48%. if we can go to fox poll 8, the president s handling of a list of issues, isis, the economy, he has an approval above disapproval. foreign policy and taxes, health
opinions and people that need to get together before they re presented to the president. that in and of itself is a learning curve. if you look at what this president did, president trump has hit the ball out of the park. the bills that he has signed, the foreign policy realignment for this country, the future of we re heading, and tax reform, infrastructure, he hit it is out of the park everyday, and the amount work that president trump does, veterans, education, teacher of the year. just today, tax reform. it doesn t end with this president. and he is the hardest working guy i ve ever seen. bret: you make which training come in and when. you make the schedule behind the scenes. what has been the biggest challenge? i think like what i said before. i mean, these things don t happen by accident. you don t get all of these events during the day happening. you don t get all of these different groups coming in and out. you donltd g t get the decision process making automatically.