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The trump administration are throwing around of $200 billion are totally inadequate. i think its also important to remember we have to place this in the context of the administrations budget. what we see when we look at the budget is theyre actually talking about some enormous cuts to core federal infrastructure programs. they want at least $200 billion out of discretionary nondefense. that includes things like new starts, amtrak, other programs, as well as a cut of $138 billion to the highway t...

Maria: are you expecting to finance some of the infrastructure programs? >> yes, but i think its more, i mean if you said permitting that will just speed up what happens. if you said the highway tax credit, the highway tax gas bill they will get more building into highways so if we get more infrastructure obviously, youll do more financing, but we would have to change the policies and procedures to get that done. maria: and thats jobs. >> its jobs. maria: real quick on markets here. with this ta...

Outside of the washington arena, a businessman, more of a man of action. the great frustration is the process in which he now finds himself. in his view, the solutions are obvious. tax cuts, tax reform, health care, infrastructure programs, strengthening our military. to him these all seem like obvious things that need to be done to protect the american people. bring jobs back. all of the things he sees as vital to protect the american people or to advance the economy or not, and the process is ...

Arena, a businessman, much more of a man of action, i would say his frustration is the process he now finds himself because in his view, the solutions are obvious, whether its tax cuts and tax reform, health care, infrastructure programs, strengthening our military. to him this seems like obvious things that need to be done to protect the american people, bring jobs back. these are things he sees as vital to protect the american people and advance the economy and whatnot. and the process is so s...

Necessarily realize that this is going to take congressional approval and its down the road t shows theyre doing something. >> and the idea of selling the public, your flights will be on time, youll sit on tarmacs less. thats certainly at least on the surface something that would have broad a appeal. the question is you also lose 30,000 federal jobs. and now that you have a republican president and a republican congress, the president is hoping he can get this through. but the republicans had th...

House releases their budget proposal generating negative headlines. rural nebraska would take a hit under the trump budget. trump budget axes program that funds west virginia infrastructure programs. and in alabama, cuts in trump budget proposal would slash some local programs. as we noted yesterday, something for nearly everyone to dislike, including republican lawmakers. on capitol hill today, white house budget director mick mulvaney faced a grilling from gop congressman mark sanford over the...

>> good luck, god speed. >> why arent he getting credit from you. >> because i said-- >> wait a minute, no, no, let me finish this. illegal border crossings down 70% without spending a dollar, without laying down a brick? that ought to make you hoip. >> ill tell you why. >> and wait, wait, by the way, richard, mercy says that the democrats care about open border and dont care about the infrastructure project. >> not true. >> wrong, blue collar democrats in the district where i live are happy abo...

>> we could potentially create 10 million jobs. we have democrats and republicans supporting this concept. >> tucker: if it does even half of that, thats great. >> the key is this deal which is international tax within infrastructure. theres 50 different ways of cutting the deal. whatever you do, we fix this international tax system that we have and we generate revenue for infrastructure. >> tucker: boy, if that does not get through, something is wrong. >> the president has not been that specifi...

All that money to potentially come back to the united states. we think about how that money could come back if the system was fixed. that is where the pay for comes from for the big infrastructure programs. >> tucker: thats just a tidal wave of money flowing outside of the country. >> it is owned by the corporations, then they divest it, they give it to their i shareholders, in addition it would generate federal tax revenues. right now the government is theoretically owed this additional money b...

Because if theyre just going manual piece work, theyre not going to make a lot of money. theyre going to make manufacturing wages are much higher than service-paying wages. thats the reality. threason is, is because of that automation, we are more efficient and we can pay for it. >> i hope youre right. weve got so many people. i want to bring in john spivey. he was a trump voter out of the business community. >> i live near central park. and i watched donald trump complete a skating rink in six ...