Trump Asked Point Blank If He Thinks 'Senators Should Respect The Decisions Of The Parliamentarian?'

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President Donald Trump was asked about the Senate Parliamentarian's rulings on provisions of the GOP reconciliation package during a White House Press Briefing.

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00:00Very, very bad ones. Go ahead.

00:01Thank you, Mr. President.

00:02On your tax bill, if I could for a moment.

00:05Senators are racing to rewrite parts of it right now

00:08after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that sections of it

00:11were outside of the process that they're using to get this through.

00:15Do you think that senators should respect the decisions of the parliamentarian?

00:19And what have you personally done in the last 48 hours

00:22to try and get Republican senators who are against the bill to a yes?

00:26Well, look, it's a great bill.

00:28It's a massive tax cut.

00:31If it's not approved, your taxes will go up by 68%.

00:34Think of that, 68, a record, the highest in the history.

00:38The Democrats won't approve it only because politically

00:40it's so good for the Republicans.

00:42The Democrats aren't approving it.

00:44But think of what they're not approving.

00:45They're not approving border security.

00:47We've done a great job at the border, but we have to add some war.

00:51We have to do various things.

00:53We have no money for that.

00:54We have no money for the border.

00:55We have no money for so many things.

00:58But if the Democrats, it would be interesting to see if we get any Democrat votes.

01:02We should.

01:03If I were a Democrat, I would absolutely, maybe Fetterman,

01:05because he seems to be the most sensible one lately.

01:08If I were a Democrat, I would vote for this bill all day long

01:11because it's tax cuts and so many other things that are common sense.

01:15They're basic things.

01:16I think they're doing fine.

01:18The parliamentarian has been a little difficult, and I would say that I disagree with the parliamentarian

01:26on some things and on other ways he's been fine.

01:29But we'll have to see.

01:30It's a big issue.

01:32I will tell you this.

01:33If that bill doesn't pass, the country will get a 68 percent tax increase.

01:39So think of this.

01:40You're a Democrat and you vote against it.

01:43That means you're voting in favor because, essentially, you're voting in favor of the largest tax hike in the history of our country.

01:50And you can't do that.

01:51In addition, we're cutting costs by $1.7 trillion, and it won't affect anybody.

01:57It's just fraud, waste, and abuse.

01:59Mr. President, let's make the president of the president.

02:01Mr. President, a leading global economist just today.

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