despite the failure to bring his health care bill to a vote graham had strong words earlier in the day for the democrats alternative to it. listen. and finally, to my republican friends, we have got an idea that defines us differently than our democratic friends because the choice they are going to give you when obamacare fails is medicare for all, which will be medicare for nobody. can you imagine being 62 like i am, worked all your life, you are getting ready to go onto medicare and berpy invites 200 million of your closest friends to join you? this is going to collapse. they are going to try to have more government. we are going to take a collapsing obamacare system take the same amount of money and put it in the hands of people that are closer to you. does have a good turn of phrase. bernie invites 200 million of your closest friends to join you. i m joined boy bob casey, democrat from pennsylvania, a man who will have some say in
Weeks and months of hearing on a lot of good ideas. democrats have ideas on a whole range of things. buying into medicare starting at age 55. expanding medicaid even further to bring more people and to cover more people. there are a lot of ideas. we need months of hearing on a lot of good ideas. and i m sure people in both parties would appreciate that. instead of having the collision we have had where one party has been obsessed, the republican party, with decimating medicaid. not tweaking it. decimating the program that helps our kids, people with disabilities, and seniors. senator good to talk to you, as always. thank you for joining us. senator bob casey, democrat from pennsylvania. while yet another health care bill to repeal obamacare was failing trump was in the rose garden with the prime minister of spain. he wasn t asked about health care because that was unfolding as he was talking. he was however asked about north korea and the ongoing crisis in puerto rico. kristen welk
Republicans and democrats together who agree on some of the repair or replace concepts, but this isn t a priority. why be in a majority party or controlling anything if you can t get these things done. that may come down the pike but it is they are not going to be happy about it. thank you jarrett. minutes ago kasie hunt spoke to senator lindsey graham. here s what he had to say about this legislation that has his name on it. is this a tough day? not really. i understand why people are concerned. it is not that they don t like the idea of block granting health care back to their states. it s not like they are sold on obamacare. one thing i can tell you, nobody in our conference believes obamacare is going to work. it must be replaced. until now we didn t know how to do it. i think we have an idea that people can rally around, the block grant makes sense. it worked for welfare reform. i understand the concerns.
Focused on just that? you want the parties to focus on fixing obamacare? i m sure they want a good debate tonight and i m saying more important at this very moment is that the graham/cassidy discussion that happens at 2:00 p.m. be debunked and that we don t fall for this notion that cbo is going it come out and show there are savings when in reality, of course, if you cut people off of access there s going to be a savings. you could cut the education budget and it would also be a savings, but it wouldn t mean that people would find more affordable educational opportunities. so this is about keeping the focus on affordability today, and i wish everybody good luck tonight as they discuss that, but today we have to make sure that as they try to propose that this is somehow a comparison to what we ve done before, and that you could tantalize states like maine and alaska, when in reality you re just giving them a few more dollars for the short term but then cutting them off
Aspects of obamacare. but if they want to come to the table and fix it, we re about fixing obamacare. it s broken and it s requiring people to do a lot of things that they just shouldn t be forced to do. the president is expected to roll out a tax plan on wednesday and actually reporting that the plan would cut the tax rate for the wealthest american from 45 when you were selected as treasury secretary, you made a very specific problem, it was very quickly dubbed the mnuchin rule. any reductions we have in income taxes will be justify set by less deductions so there will be no absolute tax cut from the upper class. can you reaffirm that there will be no upper class tax cuts?