let s talk about the expiration dates. 2025, the individual tax rates expire. corporate tax rates do not have any expiration dates whatsoever, right? the distinction. there is a staggering there. for lower income americans, they ll see their tax rates go up as early as 2019. for everybody making, i think it s under $75,000, they re going to see their tax rate go up by 2023. so, this really is temporary. and the grandstand that marco rubio made for child more of a child tax credit, that, too, is just like a little bump. we re not really seeing a big benefit for the middle class, aside from the doubling of the standard deduction, which also expires in 2025. so, everything that s good for the middle class is either small or it s going to be gone. but republicans, they re sticking to their guns here, saying it s going to be good for the middle class, aside from the sort of outliers like mcconnell said a couple weeks ago where he did admit that taxes could go up for some middle clas
that brick wall of saying protect mueller, he s a man of integrity, he should finish his investigation, that wall is crumbling now. i mean, if we were to put together a mash of every person that said that mueller was the right person for this job from both sides of the aisle, it would literally be almost everybody, who have now changed their opinions right, they re not saying that. they re not saying that anymore. lindsey graham s not saying that anymore. and this is very dangerous, because why? are they trying to get ahead of it before mueller finds something? no, they re carrying water for the trump white house, and they all have their motives for doing so, but it s a very, very dangerous game to play. and history will look very, very poorly on republicans who didn t try to prevent bob mueller from being fired, if he is fired, because he is a man of utter integrity. he has more integrity than anybody we ve had on the political scene the last 25 years. he had an impecc
poll gives democrats their first double-digit lead among voters since the obama era. the numbers also show democrats lead republicans by 10% in their interest regarding the 2018 midterms. they also show the president s disapproval rate at 56%. so, let s get into this. joining me to break it down, peter emerson, contributor at the huffington post and rachel brevard from the conservative partnership. welcome on this sunday evening. should republicans in congress be concerned about this? well, yes and no. i mean, historically, the president s party loses an average of 32 seats in the midterms. i mean, this is a trend that has happened every midterm. but i think on the other hand, yes, you ve seen republicans have unified control of the government for a year without significant legislative accomplishments. this tax reform bill if they get it will be a great thing, but it s not polling well nationally. this is not going to ignite the base and get them to turn out in midterms and that s
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it s unclear. if you don t have a heavy hitter at the top of the ticket, you have to get people energizend get them out to vote, and it s unclear whether trump will be able to do that. he needs more than his base to win 2018. he needs people as my colleague, josh called them, trump-curious. people who are like trump-curious. trump-curious. people who are like, i m going to give this guy a chance, i m going to give his party a chance, his policies, his politics. and you know, the republican party has gotten a little messy. you have the bannonites, you have the more old guard, mitch mcconnell type republicans. there s going to be infighting between them, and you don t know if you can necessarily trust trump s judgment on which candidate to pick, on which side to go down. he ll go down either way, but it seems like the bannonites get to whisper in trump s ear, and it seems like they hold sway over a president. and the more they do that, the more you turn off the trump curious, the