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eoverage of president trump, who's expected to sign the va mission act. the legislation extends the veterirealth care oi for one year dateseveits community care programs into one. you're watching li coverage on c-span3.

>> this is live coverage at the white house where president trump is expected to sign the mission act shortly. while we have seen vice president pence, and he's been greeting the crowd, which includes former senator and cabinet secretary elizabeth dole. we'll ju be waiting for the president. we expect him to comi shortly to signct.

>> this is live coverage at the suld be a ang ere presiden moment now to sign the va ssion act that does deal with veterans' health care. we're going to be waiting for him. in the meantime, we're going to show you some of this morning's "washington journal." >> our guest is the representative. >> good morning. >> talk about that role, that title you do. what's your job? >> so i was elected by my colleagues in the democratic caucus along with hakeem jeffries from new york to develop the democratic house gea d a strategy to communicate our agenda to bring us back into majority thi year. so we have been doing that work, and we have been focused really on addressing the core economic

aie t american people are feeli it focuses on raising family incomes, reducing the cost in people's lives from everything from health care to childcare, and making sure people are prepared for jobs in the 21st century. we've been contrasting our ideas on all these issues with the raw deal that the republicans are offering. >> so if the house -- democrats took over the house, what would leaders do about that? repeal? >> on the issue of tax think what the repcadid was a real scam. 86% of those tax cuts went to s a tax increase over the life of that. 13 million americans will lose their health insurance. the rest of americans will see their premiums go up. they made more generous the tax breaks that companies get icanip ob overseas. we would do just the opposite. we would provi a real tax cut foriddlecl families that was permanent. that would be the bulk of it. we would get rid of tax

provisions that benefit compani jobs as.ovse but weld also do it in right way. there were no hearings, no witsses. it was jammed through at the speed of light in the dark of night. i think because the republicans new it was so bad, and the more people learned about it, the more they didn't like it. so we'd go through a regular order. we'd have hearings and testimony and witnesses. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. this is a very big day. choic we've been looking for choice for a long time. today's the day. so it's very important. ery happy.