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Roads. the alternative iseo polls. the federal government is only willing to put about $200 billion into this $1.5 trillion infrastructure programs of the question is wheres the rest of the money going to come from? what the states have been doing is selling roads to the private sector and put on whopping tolls. >> tucker: why do we have government, is it to run diversity seminars and retirement for federal employees? its to defend the borders, to keep the t visigoths at bay into pay for roads. ...

For the nations deteriorating infrastructure. but big cuts to entitlement programs. lets discuss now. cnn political comment taters tara setmayer and symone sander here with me. also with me, a republican political consultant. hello all. >> good evening. >> hello. >> happy mardi gras and black history month. >> happy valentines day. >> the president is promoting the infrastructure plan. and donating his fourth quarter salary to the department of transportation. is this a deflection from all the c...

The presidents budget plan calls for billions of dollars in new funds for the military, also for the nations deteriorating infrastructure. but big cuts to entitlement programs. lets discuss now. cnn political comment taters. here. and a republican political consultant. hello, all. >> good evening. >> hello. >> happy mardi gras and black history month. >> the president is promoting the infrastructure plan. and donating his fourth quarter salary to the department of transportation. is this a defle...

Entitlement programs, $1.7 trillion, including medicare and medicaid. and then the budget calls for a whopping $18 billion to construct a southern border wall. people, do your homework as it comes to a wall. border security and wall are not the same things. theyre not interchangeable. you can have border security without spending $18 billion for a wall. and its much more efficient, actually, border security, more border agents, than just building a wall that people are going to climb over or dig...

Supportive of this kind of spending at these levels and talking about infrastructure projects, which often times become boondoggles, you cant kill the tea party off any more than this. its going to be very interesting to see how the freedom caucus and some of the more budget hawks, are they really going to go along with this? if so, i mean, what does the republican party stand for anymore. >> absolutely not, tara. this is a midterm election cycle. i think there is no chance that republicans are ...

The president recommends a cut in nonmilitary spending that would lower the federal budget deficit by $3 trillion over ten years, and then $200 billion in federal funds for 1.5 2kz trillion for infrastructure investments over the next ten years. a very different budget than previous republican budget. what do you make of it? >> well, i think the cuts that theyre touting are just sort of spending increases at a little bit of a lower rate. at the end of the day, this budget still does spike the de...

But the reality, what you can propose in a budget like what the president put forward to cut is all the other programs that congress has discretion over. we dont have a choice about the entitlement programs. we are obligated to spend every year in accordance with the law. the only way to change the spending is to change the law. >> dana: things you want to spend on get smaller and smaller if you dont deal with the rest. >> yeah. by making the deficit larger, what were doing is really kicking the...

Do that because clearly they give folks a pass on it. leland: when is it the responsibility of an individual congress income a first term are to stand up and say im not going to vote anymore for this runaway spending? when does that responsibility kick in? >> i dont think either the politics of the national debt when you have troops woefully unprepared, ill-equipped and their safety the line. we put them in the gap for her safety and security and freedom so the first thing is get them what they ...

There was going to be that government shutdown in the first time that lasted three days. it was because of these entitlement programs and they basically want to keep it at the same level while theyre infusing funding into the military, but lets be clear. when obama went and did the stimulus package, it was because we needed shovel-ready programs because our economy was in a spiral downward. he needed to basically infuse funding from the federal reserve to ensure that the people didnt basically -...

>> they absolutely are deferring to democrats. because the size of the deficit spending in that bill would definitely be lower if they passed the bill -- id like them not to have to pass it with just republican votes. but if they did, the deficit spending component would be much different. >> this isnt the budget he would have wanted. he has pushed very hard for much tighter spending in terms of entitlement programs and looking for deep radical almost transformation in the social contract we hav...