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Getting really good and it s something they like it s something that s building support among democrats not along the freedom caucus. if there is another supreme court seat it could change thele aboutance of power and it is going to be a knockdown dragout fight. members of congress are on a two week recess. they have got to spend some time at home. few have agreed to town halls. but they have been hearing about health care. the administration needs a domestic agenda. avoiding a government shutdown is not a deliverable to say to the american people, we passed this for you. what do you think happens? at this point we wait and see. i m correcting myself, i said obama administration. it is a 11:45. forgive me, i meant trump administration. go ahead. i knew what you many. ....
And also stuck on the issue of entitlements. we had harry reid come out and basically say he wasn t open to reforming especially social security. so there s a big question mark about how they re going to move forward. remember, these are sort of their opening bids. presumably there is room for some sort of movement on either side. in terms of getting a deal done by the first of the year, i think there s a lot of pressure on both sides to try to get something done here. you remember the debt ceiling debate. after that sort of knockdown dragout fight, congress had its lowest approval ratings in history. they know they need to get something done. remember, if they don t get something done before the first of the year, it could have serious consequences on the economy. i want to ask you both to weigh in on this question. kristen, you do the political angle and neil you give me the nuts and bolts. yesterday john boehner wrote an op-ed calling for the health care law to be part of the nego ....
way. in the end house speaker john boehner, he caved in and he gave in to political pressure but still he defends the stand that he took. we have fought the fight, the good fight, but i talked to enough members over the last 24 hours who believe that, hey, listen, we don t like this two-month extension. we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill and if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the american people even though it s not exactly what we want. it seems that everything we ve done this last year has been a knockdown dragout fight. there is no reason to do that. if there were a message received from this last thing we ve been through, i would hope especially i repeat the new members of the house will understand that legislation is the art of compromise. now the tax cut deal is a win for the president. he pushed back pretty hard against house republicans who opposed the short-term extension. white house did issue a statement sayin ....