kelsey snell: i may have misspoke. it may have been 2014. joe lawler: let's talk about one of the big obstacles you will face. the distributional impact of the plan. you cut the individual tax rate, capital gains taxes, eliminate the estate tax. democrats say, this is going to result in big tax cuts for high earners. how do you address that? i think thosedy: press releases were written before the blueprint was actually sent out. so they were anticipating that. if you look at the blueprint you see tax relief at every income level. simplification and every income level -- at every income level. taxed for lowre income families. we virtually eliminate the 10% bracket. it is just not needed anymore. the analysis of the blueprint is it provides wage growth, strong growth for the economy, 9% growth. after-tax in your paycheck growth at every income level. and that is by. we think tax relief should occur take less board and money from you at every income level so you can have more control of your life. and it will also grow local economies. joe lawl

i want to introduce kelsey snell and joe lawler. kelsey snell: i just wanted to ask about the blueprint. when speaker ryan started the process, he said he hopes all the blueprint elements together would give house republicans a platform on which to run in the upcoming election. i'm wondering how much you have discussed that platform with your presumptive nominee donald trump. did you attend that meeting? rep. kevin brady: i did. the speaker is exactly right. we have to stand for change in america and layout what our solutions are. we have done that with his leadership. giving us the green light on how to get people from welfare back to work and self-sufficiency. how do you make the country safer? how do we fix this broken tax code and get the economy going again? i was at the meeting. it was very positive. i feel like on the area of tax reform and how we get the economy going, there's a lot of common ground with mr. trump. and i'm hopeful as president that he will embrace our ideas. it seems like his tax reform proposals are very si

i want to introduce kelsey snell, congressional reporter for "the washington post" and joe lawler for "the washington examiner." kelsey, you are up first. kelsey snell: i just wanted to ask about the blueprint. when speaker ryan started the process he said he hopes all the elements together would give house republicans a platform on which to run in the upcoming election. 'm wondering how much you have discussed that platform with your presumptive nominee donald trump. rep. kevin brady: i did. the speaker is exactly right. we have to stand for change in america and layout what our solutions are. we have done that with his leadership. giving us the green light on how to get people from welfare back to work and self-sufficiency. how do you make the country safer? how do we fix this broken tax code and get the economy going again? i was at the meeting. it was very positive. i feel like on the area of tax reform and how we get the economy going, there's a lot of common ground with mr. trump. and i'm hopeful as president that he will embrace our ideas. it seems like his tax reform proposals