likely never be collected. adding up to $187 million in 2017. out of that $187 million, the treasury department has provided debt collectors to collect a net of $11 million. this is not due to the inactive tax debt available for the irs to assign. according to the government accountability report, the irs has over $130 billion of outstanding debt on its books. so ham stringing that program by refusing to release inactive debt for the program ought to be considered unacceptable by anybody. so can you give me assurances that the department of treasury under your leadership will work to implement the program to the
something has to be done. the feeling is that it will happen two now. republicans have beenadament and said we can t raise taxes on anybody. and glover norquist said as long as you don t raise tax rates that is okay. and lindsay graham on that. i agree we shouldn t raise rates but i think grover is wrong to cap and buy down debt. what do you do with the money and i will violate the pledge for the good of the country only if the democrats do entitlement reform. gretchen: i think the pledge thing is good and bad. if you are a republican and believe that raising taxes is the wrong they think that and fine. but ham stringing politicians and many people lost election