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>> happy new year, sarah. let me ask you about some other agenda items and ill follow up with a question about the budge budget. infrastructure, welfare reform, border security, which of these is the primary focus in the early stages of 2018, or is this a buckshot approach and use them like going to go for them all and see which one you can stick the landing on first? >> secretary sanders: the president was elected because of his ambitious agenda and his desire to get a lot of things done grade ...

Americans. if we do this, i think we unlock the economy in a major way. >> bill: there is clearly pressure on leaders to get tax reform done. they are trying to deliver on a another major priority for the white house. instead of needing 60 votes, congress must finish up a budge budget. they are trying to find the right balance between moderate and conservative republicans. theres still work to be done on the house floor. some house conservatives are withholding support before they see what savin...

Frankly, ive never seen anything like this kind of a phony estimate on growth in a budget in many decades of following this. you know, that 1% extra growth adds $2 trillion of revenue. thats funny money. its not going to happen. >> so where do these numbers come from? how did they come up with this plan? >> they wanted to say a couple of things. they wanted to say the budget balance is in 10 years, and they wanted to cut taxes. they dont even include the tax cut in this budget. but if you didnt ...

Thats why were holding a ral kri. this erodes the basic standards. >> the presidents budget is a wish list. there is going to be negotiations about it. what have you been hearing from your democrat and republican colleagues about where there could be some middle ground and where they could push back against some of these proposals? >> we held a hearing today with the office of management and budget director mr. mulvaney. im on the budget committee. believe you me, at this point the democrats are...

Him in large part because of that, because he said he was going to make sure they were going to be employed and they were going to have health care. >> sure. sure. if people are going to have health care. and that is obviously something that the congress has got to work out. a lot of details in that. the senate hasnt even addressed it yet. we got a long ways to go on health care, we have a long ways to go on tax reform, we have a long ways to go on this budget. the thing that i would ask democra...

Is trying to figure out how to speak trump. how much of him is him raising an issue and then backing off or hyp hyp hyperbole. there are going to be 28 or 29 leaders here, if you include macedonia. theyll get a chance to get -- just to hear donald trump in their own words. >> hans, dont worry, sometimes you just dont know how people are going to react, especially with donald trump, because he is so different than what foreign leaders are used to coming out of america. hans, appreciate it. back...

Here theyre saying the tax cut doesnt cost anything so we get that money on top of it. its a pure double count. they had no reasonable explanation for why they did that, but the reason they did it, they wanted to say it was a balanced budget. >> do they just want to say that or do they believe it? do they not know whats in the plan? is this politics? >> i dont think donald trump knows whats in the plan. >> do the folks actually writing this bill? >> i think mick mulvaney knows whats in it but he...

People, and give it to the wealthy in a tax cut. its not that complicated. >> henry, jump in. >> yeah. thank you. well, this is certainly not about taking anything from anybody. we need to remember that the money thats in the budget comes from taxpayers, people like me, people like you who pay your taxes. and i think what the country voted for in november has changed, and i think with $20 trillion more or less of debt in the country, this is an opportunity to get to a balanced budget, move us in...

Families who will go hungry if the presidents cuts to food and aid are enacted. fasting in solidarity. talk to me about your message. >> first of all, let me just say this budget is a disaster. its cruel and heartless. specifically with regard to food assistance, the president cuts $190 billion. 47% of those receiving s.n.a.p. benefits are children. he eliminates the food for peace program, our international food assistance program. also, let me just say why -- another reason why i think this is...

Home, we would call it an increase. in washington, we call it a cut. sticker trump budget proposal for 2017 was $4.062 trillion. the president and his team are calling for spending increase of $32 billion for fiscal year 2018 to 4.094 trillion. mulvaney has taken some heat. >> will the presidents budget mean medicaid gets $1.3 trillion less then it would otherwise? >> the cbo baseline score, the answer is yes. it will spend more money a personal year over the previous year with the exception ive...