WMAL Interview - LARRY KUDLOW - 02.07.17

INTERVIEW — LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm and author of “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity”

DeVos confirmation vote is a nail-biter. The Senate is scheduled to vote on whether to confirm Ms. DeVos as education secretary on Tuesday, in a nail-biting finish that may require a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, announced last week that they would join Democrats in blocking her. The vote will follow what has become, in effect, a congressional staring contest over Mr. Trump’s cabinet nominations, threatening a week of round-the-clock votes until four of his picks are confirmed.
Trump, GOP Lawmakers Back Off From Immediate Obamacare Repeal. During the campaign, Trump promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act immediately upon taking office. Last month, in an interview with The Washington Post, he said he had a replacement law “very much formulated down to the final strokes.” But on Sunday, he dialed back those expectations in an interview with Fox News. “It’s in the process and maybe it will take till sometime into next year, but we are certainly going to be in the process. It’s very complicated,” Trump said. He repeated his claim that Obamacare has been “a disaster” and said his replacement would be a “wonderful plan” that would take time “statutorily” to put in place. And then he hedged the timing again. “I would like to say by the end of the year, at least the rudiments,” he said.