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praise, you talked only about taxes. you said essentially that you have pushed this item for local property taxpayers for the region that albany was very proactive in pushing thistaxpay faso only talked about the environment. this is to eliminate and save new york 19 property taxpayers millions of dollars. if this is about reforming medicaid, why are and you your colleagues only talking about tax cuts? you re praising tax cuts. i wholly support john faso and mr. collins amendment. here in western new york, people are leaving in droves because they can t pay their bills and take care of their homes. what we should do is put the burden on the state capitol because they control how this program is delivered at the local level. new york is one of the only states that puts it on the taxpayers to foot the bill. from my perspective, this is a great amendment that needs to be supported and reduce the $145 million in my low income areas across this district are going to be relieve ....
they did not defund planned parenthood. they definitely don t want to build a border wall. but now almost ten months into the republican congress, top republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. preserving president obama s immigration policy. the trump administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the obama era program which apparently illegally gives work permits to illegal immigrants who arrived in the country as children. killing that program would fulfill one of the term campaigns promise. it would also fit with the republican party s stated position against amnesty and in favor of enforcing the law rather than granting politicized immunity. scrambling to preserve daca. this morning in a radio interview, speaker paul ryan begged the president to keep the program in place until congress can pass a bill granting amnesty to the illegal immigrants daca covers. i actually don t think you should do that.
areas, up to 35 inches of rain, because this is a massive rain making system, and due to complicated weather patterns, chad can explain, it ll probably stall out in texas. we ve lost power to 63,000 homes in this area, that s corpus christi, they ve put together a boil order, that s a recaution, with so much water around here, essentially the city s drinking water could be contaminated. and the wind are not expected to dramatically die down any time soon. so, the hard shp really is not coming to a end, we re shifting to a more difficult phase. martin, we ll have chad along in a moment, there are 131 miles per hour winds. how does this compare to the other hurricanes you ve covered. you and i have both been out in a lot of them. time. because if the water does pile up as is expected, it could cut off not only rescue efforts to come in but escape routes to get out. that s what you saw in new orleans after katrina. this is not a katrina, it s a very different circumstance, but ....
that s why we have a president. you will concede that. i think that s a valid argument and that s the argument that was made. that s one of the arguments that persuaded the supreme court today. although, keep in mind, that the court only lifted the stay. it will hear the merits of the case in october. but, yes, you are right. but, as i said, the stronger argument against this travel ban is it s really bad policy. it doesn t accomplish the goal which is no-to-make america safer. tucker: it doesn t. you would argue the counter case that the more immigrants that we have from say somali coming into the country the safer we are? what point are you making. what i would argue on policy grounds this ban is both too broad and not broad enough. let me explain. here s why it s too broad. it denies muslims from six predominantly muslim countries. tucker: let me stop and correct you. it makes no reference to religion at all. it doesn t badge muslims. it bans people who live in six coun ....
reporter: the white house defending the government s response. the federal response has been anything but slow. in fact, there s been an unprecedented push through of billions of dollars of federal assistance. reporter: but the president has spent the last three days tweeting repeatedly about nfl players who kneel during the national anthem. mr. trump, continuing to fan the flames on twitter monday night. sources tell cnn that the president appears pleased with the firestorm he has created, telling a private dinner of conservative leaders it s really caught on. i said what millions of americans were thinking. administration officials tell cnn that chief of staff john kelly is not happy with the public feud but the retired military general, who lost a son in the afghanistan war, agrees with the president on the substance of the debate. meanwhile, nfl teams continue to show solidarity against president trump s comments. the entire dallas cowboys team and team owner, jerry jon ....