Facebook. Com cspan. If you are a medicare recipient, we want to know your experience with the program and your thoughts on possible changes. We will begin with House Speaker paul ryan, who has during his legislative career eyed entitlement reform as a way to tackle the nations debt. [video clip] when you talk about entitlement reform, one of the things youre talking about is obamacare. And then welfare as well. We have a welfare system trapping people in poverty, and paying people not to work. Thinking about trying to do any reforms with Social Security or medicare . President trump has not seemed interested in those things. He has not shown as much interest. We are working on entitlements he is supportive of. You cannot use budget reconciliation for Social Security. It is exempt from those rules. It is the healthcare entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt. That is where the problem lies fiscally. Host the speaker of the house thinking medicare is the problem with our natio
A preview of what Congress Might do about entitlement programs in 2018. This is just over one hour. Host and we are back and continued our conversation this morning about entitlement reform. Could it happen this year between capitol hill and this white house . Between capitol hill and this white house . Rettaw is james cap and Melissa Boteach. Thank you both for being here. Melissa, let me begin with you. How do you define entitlement . Aest i define entitlement as basic Living Standards whether its retirement or health care or nutrition that if you are eligible for it, youre guaranteed to receive it. I think thats important because it sets a floor of income security under americans such that when we face the ups and downs of life whether its unemployment or a medical emergency, etc. That there is basic Living Standards to support us. With things like retirement, thats an inevitability for all of us. Host the question is who should be eligible for . It . Guest my definition is similar
Between capitol hill and this white house . Rettaw is james cap and Melissa Boteach. Thank you both for being here. Melissa, let me begin with you. How do you define entitlement . Aest i define entitlement as basic Living Standards whether its retirement or health care or nutrition that if you are eligible for it, youre guaranteed to receive it. I think thats important because it sets a floor of income security under americans such that when we face the ups and downs of life whether its unemployment or a medical emergency, etc. That there is basic Living Standards to support us. With things like retirement, thats an inevitability for all of us. Host the question is who should be eligible for . It . Guest my definition is similar to its a benefit conferred by federal law. If you meet the eligibility criteria, then the benefit is conferred on you through several programs. I think thats generally the issue that were now talking about. Entitlement spending associated with that eligibility
March 19th, good morning to you, im rahel solomon. The lets turn over to Justin Drabick talking about this snow, the s word. Stop dropping that s word. This could be the last time but never say never. Things can happen. We have had snow all the way to may. Oh, no, no, none of that. But spring arrives officially tomorrow with a little will bit of snow flakes. Not a big deal. It looks like this storm system will track too far off shore to cause big problems but just enough for a reminus that things can still happen and turn cold even in early spring. The lets talk about what is happening right now outside. Not a whole lot. We have clear skies, high included rolling in. The it is filtering out the moon but cool shot this morning of the the moon but cloud thicken up from the west today. Mainly dry day for the most part. We could see some rain arriving later during the day south and east of the city but look at the change in the temperatures. Here we go 10 degrees colder then this time yest
The count down is on, in just over an hour, these two apartment buildings will come tumbling down. We are live with why they are being demolished and what it will take to bring them down. The hawk will never die. St. Joes moves on in march madness we will hear from excited fans and the team, about last nights big win in the first round of the ncaa tournament, coming up. And were tracking snow for the first day of spring, when exactly it arrives this weekend and how much you can expect where you live. Today is saturday march 19th, good morning to you im rahel solomon. The lets hear about the snow. We will turn it over to meteorologist Justin Drabick. Fortunately you say it wont be too much. In the a bad thing, nothing is easy. First day of spring you think warm temperatures but not around here. But we have been spoiled. We have. Ill he just say it. Reminder it can still get cold. Talking about a nuisance snow coming at us tomorrow and should not be a big deal maybe accumulation mainly o