Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individual side of this House Republican plan. Here they are. Top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low Million Dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45 . They take issue with a portion of passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph
themselves. the conservative tax foundation has estimated that the increase in the debt under this bill this is the conservative think tank $989 billion. neil: you re right about that. what i m curious about, sir, where we go from here. because what i do notice regardless what you think of this republican plan and a lot of warts in it to your point, we ll still have about half the people in the country pay nothing federal income tax at all. they still pay payroll taxes. there s fewer and fewer americans carrying the burden for this. i m wondering whether there s room for a plan that includes everybody, everybody paying something. something into this. i tend to agree with that, neil, as you may know. frankly you say where do we go from here. where we ought to go from here is where we went under ronald