With Lieutenant Governor kevin bryant discusses key Public Policy issues in South Carolina. Washington journal is live now. Host good morning. President trump arrived in this, switzerland Early Morning the before he left washington, president made plenty of news during an. Promptu press gaggle the president said that he appeared at bolster the efforts lookingartisan group for a tough stance against ilLegal Immigration. This morning on the washington journal, we want to know what you think. Democrats, 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488003, and a , andendents 202 7488002 for recent immigrants legal or. Therwise 202 7488003 here is the headline in the washington journal, President Trump blocks passway for immigrants. Backs citizens for passway. Here is the president s comments during that impromptu press gaggle. [video clip] we want to do a great job with daca. It is going to happen at some point. Of 10 to 12 years. Whether they have a Little Company on whether th
You can find this and more at cspan csp c. Org. Thoughts on over hauling the tax toad. Code. Good afternoon. On behalf of our president jim deadmit, welcome to the Heritage Foundation, it is our pleasure to announce congressman rothsman, hes a graduate of the university of illinois and earned a law degree at the Illinois Institute of technology, the congressman is a member of the house ways and Means Committee where he serves as chairman as the panels subcommittee on tax policy. We are fortunate to have the congressman with us today because in this role he will no doubt be playing an Important Role in the effort to develop, debate and pass fundamental tax reforms. Reforms should fuel job creation and deliver opportunity for all americans, simplify the tax code in order to make it fair and less burdensome, and should refocus the Internal Revenue knew service on its customers the american people. Fundamental tax reform consistent with these goals. Ladies and gentlemen please join me of w
Point cadet prayer i grew up with called, do the harder right, rather than easier wrong, we got everybody in the room under the leadership of deputy secretary sloan gibson, veteran service organizations, members of congress, their staffs and so forth. We said, you know, were going to lock the door. Well slip the food under the door. Youre not coming out of the room until you come up with a new law. We now have a new law, but it has got to be passed by congress. So if it we can get these laws passed, the ones i talked about, veteran outcomes are we said if we get this lay passed, as we work down the backlog, eventually we will be able to deal with an appeal in one year, in one year. Not five years plus. So it is just a matter of taking the problem, solving the problem, but then you got to get congress to pass the law. Comes back to our audience, yes, sir . [inaudible]. General, just hold on one second. Were going to get you a microphone so the cspan audience can first i would like to sa
A percent of gdp during that time. They are hire in each of those years than they are today, is the rights because thats right, congressman. And their higher, are they not do, in each of those years than it will be as a percent of economy 10 years from . Yes, thats right. My calculation is that the average amount of revenue as a percent of gdp when the last balance the budget was 19 of gdp. During those four years the average amount of revenue was 90 of gdp. Now, you have just testified that the main reason that were going to see an increase in the deficit in the out years is because we have tens of millions more americans on programs like Social Security and medicare, right . Yes. Our republican colleagues position is that we can somehow deal with that huge increase in the number of americans on Social Security and medicare with less revenue as a percent of gdp in lebanon last balanced the budget in 19982001 women had a lot fewer americans. On Social Security and medicare. That is the
When we were fighting it and it is just a different environment. If you look at the protest movement over 2013, they remain moderate tone focused on legitimate grievances of the community. The protests in the fallujah taking place every friday were far more militant, far more extremist. It is just a different like different cultures and attitudes. If i could just follow up on congressman deutschs question, you said most of the foreign fighters were syrian . Had come inighters to syria from the greater region thomas jihadist minded people had come in. Theeo speak about what and president s assad. Do they understand that why allowing these flyovers and potentially strengthening our programming prolonging of the regime, they are undermining their ability to take back their own country from the same extremists . Connection . That what is the difference between and assad regime . There is no love lost with Bashar Alassad. He was calling for him to be brought to a criminal court taste upon b