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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." president trumps budget was unveiled and democrats wasted no time showing the predictable scare tactics. watch this. >> that budget that trump has presented is a grotesquely immoral budget. it is a horrific budget. senior citizens will lose perhaps the one nutritious meal a day they get, the meals on wheels program. >> when youve added all up, the trump budget is a comic book villain bad budget. the trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and wor...

"hannity." president trumps budget was unveiled and democrats wasted no time spreading the predictable scare tactics.s. watch this. >> that budget that trump has presented is a grotesquely immoral budget. it is a horrific budget. senior citizens will lose perhaps the one nutritious meal a day they get, the meals on wheels program. >> when you add it all up, the trump budget is a comic book villain bad budget. the trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and working americans. lavish...

They done their homework and they need to get, really, your input because it needs to get approved by you. >> they have done their homework and continue to do so. i dont think theyve filled in as much meat on the bones as we have. what representatives from the white house have met with us repeatedly and continue to do so. the ways and means committee is actually having a retreat this weekend and starting tomorrow for two days to fill in more meat on the bones and representatives from the white h...

You will hear from most republicans. theyll leave out the part about possible harm to the economy or innocent people. but if theyre honest about the numbers they will just point out mathematically the numbers dont exist in discretionary spending to try to do this kind of thing. >> right. they dont care about deficits when a republican is in the white house. remember when george w. bush was in the white house, dick cheney said, quote, deficits dont matter. they only care about irresponsible spend...

To solve for a deficit in the hundreds of billions of dollars cannot be accomplished through deeper cuts in discretionary programs without terrific harm to both the economy and a lot of innocent people. and jonathan, thats not what you will hear from most republicans. theyll leave out the part about possible harm to the economy or innocent people. but if theyre honest about the numbers they will just point out mathematically the numbers dont exist in discretionary spending to try to do this kind...

Than any other developed nation is because we have this mishmash of public-private systems. if you look at most other big european nation with a national health care system, much better outcomes, much lower costs. we to fix it at a grassroots level. >> that sounds so easy. >> then why is it that the two industries in america that have the fastest rising costs are education and health care, and those are the two industries that have the most government involvement. you are saying have more gofl i...

I agree, chuck hagel wants to spend more than we need. if you take the deficit problems seriously. on the other hand, its a lot less than defense secretaries have pushed for in the past. so the time may have overrode it a little bit. im encouraged to have him talk about getting rid of some weapons systems and reducing the military. the biggest issue here is that he does seem to me to be agreeing at this notion of american intervention with significant military force in various parts of the world...

Yeah, its in this context. i agree, chuck hagel wants to spend more than we need. if you take the deficit problems seriously. on the other hand, its a lot less than defense secretaries have pushed for in the past. so the time may have overrode it a little bit. im encouraged to have him talk about getting rid of some weapons systems and reducing the military. the biggest issue here is that he does seem to me to be agreeing at this notion of american intervention with significant military force in...

Provide for you in the future. and the president made a statement about this deal. he said we cant break our trust with our seniors. he was implying entitlement reform. my goodness, yes, we shouldnt. but what about the promise we made to veterans and those who serve? it was foolish to think this is the way we can balance our books. its not a long-term solution and its certainly a temporary break in trust with those who serve. >> why cant there be protective language protect our rights each and e...

Ironic because in essence it could be the middle class that is getting hit by obama care more than anyone else. this speech sound ed a lot likea speech he gave in kansas. he was hitting on income inequality saying the growing deficit problems according to president obama and said that is the biggest challenge of our time and said that he is going to spend the last three years in office trying to battle that. that is a populist kind of message one that he tried to strike before the election of 20...