obamacare under reconciliation. that means they ll only need 51 votes instead of the normal 60, something they failed to do already. repealing obamacare has been priority for this president and his administration may try to find ways to undermine it while they search for ways to get rid of it. health and human services says obamacare s advertising budget would be cut from $100 million to $10 million next year. and that the budget for navigators who help sign people up for insurance would be cut from about $62 million to $37 million. for more kathleen sebelius, the former health and services secretary under president obama and played a key role in implementing obamacare. thanks for being with us. good to be with you, ali. i can t imagine with a schedule garrett was discussing that anybody is going to get a repeal and replace bill because this is not a mathematical issue. it s a senate republican issue and a congressional republican issue that they can t work out what they want to ha
and everybody said kentucky is the model state for implementing obamacare. matt bevin got elected governor. trump and rand paul got elected both running on repealing it obamacare. thing projection of electoral calamity saying they re going to be tarred with the vote and it s going to cost them their seats. this is what democrats want republicans to believe. there s not a shred of evidence that following through on a campaign promise that led to republican majorities in congress is going to cost anybody a seat next year. let her respond. 17% of americans like the versions of the republican plan, the affordable care act has a majority approval rating. campaigning and voting on something that has 17% approval rating and even if you look purely at trump voters only, it s 25% approval rating. it is at astronomically, i m mixing it the metaphor, low, abysmally low numbers. it is not a good strategy. it is not a good thing to ask them to walk the plank on. and i mean, you know, maybe the
attack and bring to justice those who are responsible. we ll provide you with other updates as warranted and a readout of the president s call with the politirime minister. the president and also an event attended by the vice president and health and human services dr. tom price. officials have seen the challenges of implementing obamacare firsthand and we continue to consider and enact policies like the american health care act that makes it more affordable for everyone. the women there represent the physicians, nurses, pharmacists and administrator who is make sure that people around the country receive the necessary preventative and life-saving car that they need every day. the doctors who attend to the patients and family practices,
over a promise made more than six years ago to replace president obama s health care law. cnn s manu raju is live for us on capitol hill. manu, republicans passed an obamacare repeal with a democratic president. why so much trouble getting done with president trump waiting to proudly display a brand-new law for the cameras? reporter: well, jake, a lot of concerns from conservatives over the details. including a center piece of the plan to give refundable tax credits for people to buy health insurance. but, jake, one thing is clear. that it s hardly the only issue that is causing some concerns among republicans on the hill. tonight president trump prepares to sell his agenda to congress, but he s confronting a party divided over the path ahead. the president is facing questions from fellow republicans about the cost of his proposals, including the wall on the border with mexico. and his new defense budget, which promises to ratchet up spending by $54 billion.
the cost of health insurance for everyone. but we re not just going along with whatever they try to shove down our throats. we re going to be a big part of this. conservatives will be listened to or there won t be a repeal. and one of the issues here, of course, is that in order to help those who right now have insurance through the medicaid expansion or perhaps have it because of the stipends that some people get through the obamacare exchanges, some republicans in congress have proposed tax credits for these lower income people. you consider that a potential new entitlement program. refundable tax credits, this means you get back money you didn t pay. somebody else s money. it s the same as a subsidy or the same as medicaid or some kind of entitlement and it s not free. it s got to come from somewhere. so, i don t think we can dress up democrat ideas and put a republican stamp on them, call them a tax credit and say we re giving them something different than what obamacare was do