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rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our "wall street journal" columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia ogrady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldnt help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the presidents budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] >> whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smart...

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Action towards mexico suggests that the establishment in washington has lost patience and theyre getting ready to default to the answer of taking military action. it would not solve the problem, but with i think were going to have to start facing the possibility that something like this could happen. not under the biden administration, i think they feel theyve got enough on their plate with russia and china, but clearly pressure is building for taking unilateral action. >> what about the idea of...

Stolen, we need to do something about it right then and people gave money them and trump kept it. hasnt spent the money fighting the 2020 election. he hasnt spent the money for candidates in 2021. he mostly kept it and spent .at his own property. the contrast between the way, the languid way he used the money, self-enriching way he used the money and the way he raised the money is striking. >> the way he has transformed the money into private revenue for his businesses, from office space at trum...

For? >> look, if youre going to grow government faster than peoples income growth, then you have to pear pare it back. medicaid ought to be turned into a defined contribution system where states decide it and where you lower the growth rates of spending. the eda, i mean, have a thorough review of all of these agencies that have never been reviewed. you can pare back spending, just the -- allow attrition to take place. we could shrink the government workforce just by 10% by people retiring and no...

Dana points out when you go to combined contribution system you get money and shop around the competition. that drives the price down. this is not a mandtory switch over to contribution. its voluntary. if you make it mandtory it saves money. what we know, forget the plan. what we know, if you dont do that, president obama in place, you have obama care that will get the medicare system to $716 billion. we will cut medicare advantage. 4 million people will go off. they love it. number three, the p...

Young people to pay more and more, get less and less. thats a time bomb. thats not going to last. >> were talking about government spending here. as a portion of the federal budget is this one of the areas where you can cut spending? >> yes. you have to. >> you cut spending for social security. can you cut spending toward medicare? >> you have to change the system. >> but can you cut -- youre talking about cutting government spending. give me some areas. >> im telling you what we actually propos...

Presidential election contribution system, they wired it so each convention gets something. its typical inside washington. but where is the leadership to change it? its not just this, its everything else in the federal government. where is the leadership to change the waste and fraud? were not seeing it right now. >> greta: i suspect the check off three dollars to go towards the convention, i suspect that was heavily lobbied by both parties. there is no checkoff for the national wildlife associa...

Presidential election contribution system, they wired it so each convention gets something. its typical inside washington. but where is the leadership to change it? its not just this, its everything else in the federal government. where is the leadership to change the waste and fraud? were not seeing it right now. >> greta: i suspect the check off three dollars to go towards the convention, i suspect that was heavily lobbied by both parties. there is no checkoff for the national wildlife associa...

Review and make sure its being as helpful as we can to people in difficult circumstances. >> governor, this is just part of your total package, youre trying to make kansas more competitive to get outside expects to relocate to the sunflower state as well. people have grabbed a hold of this food stamp thing and to the exclusion of all the other good ideas youve put forward. >> well, thats whats been really disconcerting to me is that we lost a decade last decade. we lost private sector jobs last ...