McConnell Will Get His Health Care Votes, Former HHS Secretary Says
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🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt says Mitch McConnell will ultimately get his 50 votes for health care but will need heavy negotiations. Prior to that, Stan Collender, Qorvis MSLGROUP's executive vice president says the CBO is stronger today than it was two months ago. Komal Sri-Kumar, founder and president of Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, says Christine Lagarde's too optimistic about the U.S. Then, Diane Swonk, CEO of Diane Swonk & Associates, says U.S. GDP is stuck at 2 percent. Finally, Brian Wieser, a senior research analyst at Pivotal Research Group, says Facebook's user growth isn't particularly meaningful.
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| 1:19.4 | Let's start with Stan Collinder at the Budget Guy on Twitter. |
| 1:23.4 | Of course, worked on Capitol Hill as a staffer now, as I said, |
| 1:26.2 | with Corvis, MSL Group in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:30.1 | Stan, great to speak with you as always. |
| 1:32.2 | Good morning. |
| 1:33.0 | Sounds like you got a busy show today. |
| 1:35.0 | As ever. |
| 1:36.0 | Stan, let me start with what happened yesterday afternoon. |
| 1:39.0 | I mentioned it seems like the leader didn't have the votes to get this through. |
| 1:42.0 | He didn't have much |
| 1:42.9 | wiggle room. He needed to have all but two Senate Republicans on on his side. |
| 1:47.8 | What made him realize that there wasn't going to be a path forward here before the |
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