repercussions of this bill. here he is. every page of this washington spending shows just how irresponsible and out of touch democrats are. reporter: now, this build back better package marks the late in a long line of government spending programs that date back to the early days of the pandemic during the donald trump administration. let s look at a few of these here. 192 billion in march 2020 responding to covid, also that month 2.2 billion in the cares act, another covid relief program, rather. then a month later $511 billion for businesses struggling from covid. as you can see the theme here, these are all covid-related n. december 2020, 99 15 billion for covid 915 billion. in march 2021, $1.9 trillion the american rescue plan, $1.2 trillion this month for
reporter: as you point out romney raised more than $4.5 million after the ruling was announced yes. but he will need a white house and a filibuster-proof majority in the senate to carry out his promise. jenna. jenna: lots of things to watch in the months ahead. wendell, thank you. jon: in that supreme court opinion the supreme court ruled the individual mandate in the healthcare law is allowable only because it s a tax. so what does the decision mean for you, the taxpayer? the congressional budget offices mate the healthcare law will decrease the federal budget deficit by $143 billion over ten years. it s expected the cost of insurance coverage will go up by $788 billion. that amount would be offset by a $511 billion decrease in spending and a $420 billion increase in revenue over the same period. lots of billions in all of that. here to help us understand what
right, that this thing was not only sent to the white house but was generated within hhs, was circulated and that staffers read this report forecasting that the health care law would drive up costs and nonetheless refused to share that with the american public. we re trying to get to the bottom of that, bret. can this not be dismissed even if true by administration officials by saying it s one report, we had other reports that we cited publicly saying that it will save costs. yeah, well, they point to the congressional budget office report, and as we talked about many times, with the cbo, they re kind of like a congressional calculator, you tell them what to count, they ll come back with the number. this is the office of the medicare actuary, looking at the actual language in the bill and how it would affect medicare. the best case scenario in the new report is an increase of $511 billion over the next ten years. that includes $520 billion in cuts to medicare. many people, as you kno
health care, saying that time was too tight. richard foster saying that he could not get his staff to do the final bill of the analysis, but he thought it would be generally similar to the senate bill, which he analyzed and his office analyzed would the cost would go up by some 222 billion over the first ten years. well, the final report, if this is true, and hhs and the white house had it one week before the vote, says that health care costs would go up $511 billion in the first ten years, and some 15 percent of hospitals and medicare providers could go into the red, and thereby endanger seniors. we reported on it last week, but now we re getting news, and if true, it would be stunning that they kept out this report right before the congressional vote. megyn: well, i mean, we re reaching out, obviously, to kathleen sebelius and hhs to try to get them to comment on whether or not in fact this unnamed staffer has it
susan malvo joins us from capitol hill. amazing when the budget becomes a side show here. this will happen in a hour or so. they will be unveiling this budget and they have had an incredible amount of infighting. they were really pushing for much deeper cuts here and what is critical to know is that the reconciliation to allow them to push through tax reform. that is why this is so critically important. what is in the bott here, $21 million for defense spending. $511 billion for nondefense spending, and look to see what they re cutting. this is where the freedom caucus