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Ideology or a shift in the way that the caucus is going to attempt to govern. the fact that we have a budge set a great thing. we need to underscore that. that s what martha stewart would call a good thing. it s a good thing. but what we know is that the philosophy remains, that the republicans are still very resistant to doing things to enhance the american public s ability to thrive and instead they re focusing on how to save corporations and the wealthy essentially. that s what we saw with these cuts. when you go to saving the cuts, you wrote a piece today that got some interest. the budget is a win for democrats, but you said the only people who will agree with you are those who are already pessimistic about the sequester. explain that. the deal preserves more than 90% of the sequester cuts. the question is, was there was any realistic chance of reversing that. ....
I am encouraged. gun control, we are seeing real achievement in the senate between republicans and democrats on immigration reform. a possible bill coming out, maybe even this week or beginning of next week. even on the budget. the president is challenging his own party and taking on his own party to get a deal done. let s face it, robert. that budge set going nowhere. going nowhere. what is going to be positive, though, carol, we ll see some structure for deficit reform. because the debt ceiling debate that s coming before us. let me tell you why you are not easing my indigestion, i am afraid of what success may look like. nobody gets all that they want. and it s about time we started to come to some sort of agreement on something. ....
Though expect to see some reaction tuesday and wednesday next week after the holidays. tony? some gains here, all right, alison. appreciate it. thank you. one other note on jobs, 200,000 california state employees could have their pay cut to the minimum wage this month. that s $7.25 an hour. governor arnold schwarzeneggered or ordered the move after the state started the fiscal year without a budget. he says it is a legal requirement. the man who writes the paychecks says he ll ignore the governor s directive. i ll do the right thing by the taxpayers of california and the public servants of california. so most important thing is in this difficult economic time, how do we protect the state treasury of california? i ll take that action to protect the treasury of california. if state workers see their pay cut, they will get back pay once a budge set finally approved. stay here in the cnn newsroom. danny boston from the school of economics at georgia tech joins us to talk about t ....