it s addition by subtraction to the bottom line. how do we see this first face-off between the tea party and trump. well, keep in mind the numbers that are in trump s mind right now and that s his job approval number which is are in the low to mid 40s so you know he s going to be wanting to work on this. this budget outline that s coming up today is trump s first bid. his first sketch and first outline telegraphs what he is interested in, where he wants to cut but he is trying to get it all out there and send an alert to people that this is what he is interested in and get the poll numbers out. it doesn t mean that congress has to adopt it and might not but he wants to get the plans out there and work on explaining to people that he s going to follow through on the campaign promises. who in congress might fight this today? there will be a lot of, i think questions raised by some of the deficit hawks in
detail stuff. i am told that the president is very concerned mainly about coverage levels. he wants to know that that number of people that are covered under health insurance when they re finished making changes to the plan does not drop under his watch. other than that, they re allowing the hill to do the big lifting and the president is also, you know, in meetings one-on-one with, you know, governor kasich on friday and others over the weekend. governors last night and today is taking in information about this so we really don t know whether he is going to personally weigh in on some changes based on what he is hearing over the last couple of days and over the next few days. well, the issue is very clear here. especially for the governors. how are they going to ensure their low income people. if you pull the grants, the money being sent for medicaid expansion then they re going to have to pay.
the governors almost to a man and woman are saying we don t have the money. they heard presentations from other organizations that said if you pull the expansion money right now you re going to lose coverage. if you do tax credits instead of subsidies which a lot of republicans want to do, you will have people lose coverage, is that acceptable? well, we re going to find out. the president is concerned about coverage levels. he s going to be disappointed. republicans on the hill are less concerned with coverage levels than ensuring that people have access to coverage they want if they shoes to go and get it which is different than what obamacare does which is more of a guarentee of breerd coverage levels and the conflict here is that republican governors in states that have the medicaid expansion that go beyond the 50/50 fed state split and fully pay for the expansion into the middle class they don t want to see that roll back and not be
president trump s nominee for secretary of the navy has withdrawn his name from consideration. the challenges separating from business interests to satisfy the office of government ethics. let s discuss with this barbara star. and cnn military analyst. this isn t the first time we heard this. we had viola had to back out as well and this was accommodating ethics rules being too difficult. what s the plus-minus on this. you re right. it s not the first time. in fact also i would say vice admiral bob harang getswood indicated he might have adverse impact on his finances and not all that different. and for many of the people that
able to pay for it. they don t want to have to pay for it with state money. so the question here is with conservatives on the hill that want to roll back medicaid and don t want to provide extra money to pay for the expansion are they going to win or are the republican governors going to win? and the most difficult thing here is republicans are in a sense afraid to move on health care because they don t know what the president wants and the president isn t telling them what he wants because i don t think he knows. if left to his own devices he s more of a leftist on health care. he s fine with the government paying for it. ohio governor john kasich met with the president and spelled out his concerns for ohio to listen to this. there s very conservative republicans in the house that are going to say just get rid of the whole thing and that s not acceptable when you 20 million people or 700,000 people in my state because where do they go? where do the drug addicted go?