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Know that their dollars are not going to fund discrimination in federally funded programs. it is a very serious mandate that this administration is seeking to cut back in all kinds of different ways. we cant stand for it. >> are you concerned that the agencies that the moral of the people doing this work in these agencies, how will they continue to do the work that they signed on to do at not great pay? >> absolutely. i think the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enf...

What weve made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function -- chris: and youre saying that the $6 billion that youre taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, thats going to have no impact on medical research? >> it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we dont think it will materially impact the quality of the research thats coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say youre wrong? >> step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we rep...

What weve made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function -- chris: and youre saying that the $6 billion that youre taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, thats going to have no impact on medical research? >> it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we dont think it will materially impact the quality of the research thats coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say youre wrong? >> step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we rep...

Blueprint documents viewed by cnn shows a long list of new cuts that could save the government $18 billion this year and help offset that big boost in defense spending. the steepest cut, $3 billion to education programs, 1.2 billion less for teacher oriented grants. and 1.3 billion cut to surpluses in the pell grant program. officials tell us that still leaves it with enough funding. the pell grant program critical for poor students to afford rising costs of college. 1 point of view 6 billion to...

Democrats pouncing on a projection that 24 million fewer people would be insured by 2026 under the republican plan. douglas holtz-eakin was the director of the office under president george w. bush. american action forum, so welcome. good to see you. >> thank you. paul: lets step back a bitth before we get into the details here, and just for a lot of viewers who dont understand what cbos role is -- and i think they wonder, well, why should budget scorekeepersle determine policy, and why are they...

Bill that would reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion over the next 10 years. the democrats pouncing on the fact that 23 million people will be uninsured under the republican plan. what should we make of the numbers? douglas was the director of the congressional budget office under president george w. bush. he is now the president of the american action form. welcome it is good to see you. >> thank you. >> paul: lets step back before we get into details. for a lot of viewers who do not unde...

President done think diplomacy is important, nothing could be fath farther from the truth. the president believe ifs diplomacy and we believe this protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens that much of the foreign aid that the president talked about in campaign. much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy are in the state department budget if those line items had been in the department of commerce you would have seen the department of commerce gone...

Spend less money overseas. this came up the other day, hard power versus soft power. theres a very deliberate attempt to send a message to allies, india and other countries that this is a hard power budget, this administration intends to change course from a soft power budget to a hard power budget. one more. yes, maam. >> can you explain more about what message the president is trying to send by eliminating a lot of funding for science and climate change research and just a follow-up later. >> ...

Because we think theres been mission creep. we think they do things outside their core function. theres tremendous opportunity for savings. we recommend a couple facilities be combine and cost savings from that. again, this comes back to the presidents business person view of government, which is if you took over this as a ceo and you look at this on a spreadsheet and say why do have have seven when we can do the same job with three? that saves money. the answer is yes. part of your answer is fo...

Nothing could be further from the truth. weve already seen secretary tillerson has had tremendous one diplomatic success on the deal he cut with iraq. the president believes in diplomacy. we believe this budget protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens much of the foreign aid the president talked about in his campaign, much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy, those types of thins are actually in the state department budget. if those line items ...