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House vote on the gop plan and theyre also discussing the presidents economic agenda. well continue to monitor and bring you comments as they happen. in the meantime, after-school programs are a lifeline for many working parents, but that lifeline could be in jeopardy. president trumps budget includes a proposal to eliminate $1.2 billion in grants for after-school and summer programs. the programs that the president wants to cut serves about 2 million children nationwide. gary tuchman visited ...

No demonstrable evidence to show they are doing better in school. when we took your money from you to say, look. we are spending it on after-school program and the way we justified these programs will help kids do better in school and get better jobs. >> reporter: just want to do a brief fact check on that right now. mulvaney said no demonstrable evidence that after-school programs are helping those children, those individuals in school right now. i dont expect him to know the specific of this o...

Are doing that. no demonstrable evidence to show they are doing better in school. when we took your money from you to say, look. we are spending it on after-school program and the way we justified these programs will help kids do better in school and get better jobs. >> you describe this as a hard power budget but is it also a hard-hearted budget? >> i dont think so. i think its probably one of the most compassionate things we can do. >> stopping programs to help the elderly? >> youre focusing o...

Oklahoma cant read an analog clock. a volunteer at a local boys & girls club wants to fix that. shes hoping an after-school program to teach the mysteries of the big hand and the little hand. everyones so used to seeing digital, she says, they all have cell phones and tablets so they dont have to look at the clock very often that is analog. and here sending that may or may not help kids to tell time. its called the albert clock. you have to do a math problem to figure out the time. its meant for...

Programs generally. theyre supposed to be educational programs. theyre supposed to help kids who dont get fed at home get fed so they do better in school. guess what? theres no evidence theyre actually doing that. theres no evidence theyre helping results, helping kids do better in school, which is what -- when we took your money from you to say, were going to spend them on after-school program, we justified it by saying these kids will do better in school and get jobs. we have no proof thats he...

Programs within the federal government. clearly there has got to be some opportunity there for a combination of savings. >> i think because its too hard to kind of get you to pinpoint this right here, but i would love for you to come back with than example of an after-school program that doesnt work. >> happy to. >> and explain that to us. i mean that in all honesty because i think i understand what youre saying but i think there are probably some cuts here on programs that people are going to m...

Fed so they do better in school. guess what? theres no evidence theyre actually doing that. theres no evidence theyre helping results, helping kids do better in school, which is what -- when we took your money from you to say, were going to spend them on after-school program, we justified it by saying these kids will do better in school and get jobs. we have no proof thats helping. >> the administration is saying no after-school programs out there are doing their job in helping educate -- >> now...

The policies. i got the opportunity to serve my community and after-school program and i got the opportunity to see all the politics supported actually worked when applied and i found out they did not work we are victims to the government when the government was supposed to be helping us be self-sufficient. john: look at this graph. how many women have babies out of wedlock? since the welfare state began fewer than 8% had babies when welfare began with johnson declaring the war on poverty 10 yea...

The policies. i got the opportunity to serve my community and after-school program and i got the opportunity to see all the politics supported actually worked when applied and i found out they did not work we are victims to the government when the government was supposed to be helping us be self-sufficient. john: look at this graph. how many women have babies out of wedlock? since the welfare state began fewer than 8% had babies when welfare began with johnson declaring the war on poverty 10 yea...

The policies. i got the opportunity to serve my community and after-school program and i got the opportunity to see all the politics supported actually worked when applied and i found out they did not work we are victims to the government when the government was supposed to be helping us be self-sufficient. john: look at this graph. how many women have babies out of wedlock? since the welfare state began fewer than 8% had babies when welfare began with johnson declaring the war on poverty 10 yea...