dollars are not going to fund discrimination ain federally funded programs. that s what this agency is going to do and we can t stand for it. and are you concerned that the agencies, morale of the people who are doing this work in these agencies, you know, how will they even continue to do the work that they, you know, signed on to do and not create pay. absolutely. i think that the career men and women who signed on to do the important work of enforcing laws. it s a law enforcement job that they are taxed to do. that the morale is suffering. i also worry very much about the impact in communities around the country that rely on this very core function. civil rights enforcement is not super this is core to what the feral gernmt is tasked to do. it is what american taxpayers expect of the federal government and so i am very deeply concerned not only about the moralities of these folks that
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 can t 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 enforcing federal civil rights laws, it s a law enforcement job that they are tasked to do, that the moral is suffering. i also worry very much about the impacted communities around the country that rely on this very core function. civil rights enforcement is not a superfluous federal function. this is core to what the federal government is tasked to do and what american taxpayers expect of the federal government. i am concerned not only of the
what we ve made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function chris: and you re saying that the $6 billion that you re taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, that s going to have no impact on medical research? it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we don t think it will materially impact the quality of the research that s coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say you re wrong? step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we reprioritized. defending the nation, including securing the southern border, is the primary function of this government. it should be a priority of this government under this administration, and funding for the national institutes of health needs to take a backseat to that. chris: finally, i m going to give you 30 seconds to call out one of your kids did something great yesterday. you missed it because you were working, so what was it? it broke my heart. my 17-year-old son james hit a walkoff
what we ve made sure is the epa will have enough money to perform its core function chris: and you re saying that the $6 billion that you re taking out of nih or want to take out of nih, that s going to have no impact on medical research? it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we don t think it will materially impact the quality of the research that s coming out. chris: and if environmentalists say you re wrong? step back and talk about what we did on the budget. we reprioritized. defending the nation, including securing the southern border, is the primary function of this government. it should be a priority of this government under this administration, and funding for the national institutes of health needs to take a backseat to that. chris: finally, i m going to give you 30 seconds to call out one of your kids did something great yesterday. you missed it because you were working, so what was it? it broke my heart. my 17-year-old son james hit a walkoff
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 housing and urban and a billion reduction to international aid which cuts funding for programs targeting hiv/aids and for u.n. peace keeping efforts. a billion dollars taken away from programs that provide disaster relief and senior citizens. a senior official says it s not a core function for the