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Countering offer against himself down to 2.5, still no go with chuck schumer? >> heavy is the mantle of the trump shutdown. listen, this is horrendous. its going to hurt people, 14,000 new yorkers, 420,000 people already hurting by it. so this is no joke. this is real and its going to hurt people. and he goes further, he says hes going to shut the border down. the border will strangle the economy of south texas, of new mexico, of arizona. over $558 billion worth of goods cross the border from me...

$558 billion worth of goods cross the border from mexico and about another 243 billion dollars of goods are exported to mexico from the u.s. so over $800 billion every day of goods cross the border. 500 million people go there every day. it will strangle the border and hurt the economy. >> hes not going to do that for that reason, right? its an idle threat, dont you think? >> this is a street corner threat. i think the democrats have offered a good deal. the republicans send over a bipartisan de...

How the workers should deal with the current financial hardship. a furloughed employee should offer to trade maintenance services such as painting or carpentry work in exchange for a reduction in rent. once an undocumented immigrant himself is now the democratic representative of the 13th district of new york. good to have you here, congressman. >> thank you so much. >> what do you make of this reporting that the $5 billion, countering offer against himself down to 2.5, still no go with chuck sc...

District of new york. good to have you here, congressman. >> thank you so much. >> what do you make of this reporting that the $5 billion, countering offer against himself down to 2.5, still no go with chuck schumer? >> heavy is the mantle of the trump shutdown. listen, this is horrendous. its going to hurt people, 14,000 new yorkers, 420,000 people already hurting by it. so this is no joke. this is real and its going to hurt people. and he goes further, he says hes going to shut the border down...

Economy of south texas. of new mexico, of arizona over $558 billion worth of goods cross the border from mexico and about another 243 billion dollars of goods are exported to mexico from the u.s. so over $800 billion every day of goods cross the border. 500 million people go there every day. it will strangle the border and hurt the economy. >> hes not going to do that for that reason, right? its an idle threat, dont you think? >> this is a street corner threat. i think the democrats have offered...

Our military is experiencing. i have been absolutely convinced that we have been doing a disservice to our men and women and military with a budget they have been getting. >> republicans and democrats agreed to the budget control act or sequester in 2011, which capped defense spending at $558 billion a year. next year, the pentagons budget is slated to be $700 million. >> and admiral had warned that the deficit was the greatest national security threat to the u.s. what changed? >> nothing has ch...

First, lets look at the sad facts. 10 years ago the u.s.a. spent about $1.8 trillion a year. last year 2010, defense spent double that. double. medicare payments more than double. defense spending more than double because of two wars. entitlements like medicaid, food stamps, welfare up from 232 billion to 558 billion, a whopping increase. finally, public broadcasting up from 300 million to 420 million just so you know. so you can see the intrusion of the nanny state. the feds dog out money to he...