Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individual side of this House Republican plan. Here they are. Top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low Million Dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45 . They take issue with a portion of passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph
sign it. so that s an easy answer for us to give here at the white house. our principles remain the same. we want lower taxes in the middle class, simpler and fairer in the middle class and we want the low corporate tax rate. neil: so you d say if it passed the house and the senate and there were people that could make a case that it s going to raise cases on some in the middle class, the president wouldn t and shouldn t sign it? your caveat is some people say. some people will always say that. say the committee the numbers we believe and why look at. we re not going to sign something that we think raises taxes. neil: do you think the bubble rate of 45.6%, the wall street journal made a big deal about, i know this can get overly picked apart. do you know if he was surprised by that and might say, you know, wait a minute. i have a problem with that? surprise is not the right word. neil: stunned? chagrinned? disappointed?