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The budget are exempt from cuts. that includes medicare, medicaid, social security, national security, and veterans programs. and now there are a lot of assumptions in this budget, including the congress will pass the presidents health care reform. even though right now, that looks dead in the water. its not an easy time to deal with the budget these days with tax collections down and the projected deficit for this year at 1.3 trillion dollars. many republicans say that is why the nations in tro...

Works. and thats really the bottom line. but you know, doing that is going to be very difficult. you saw pat toomey there. you know, opposition to this -- it will be interesting to see if democrats can galvanize around it and how the country reacts over this weeks week. >> with the release of the bill, i did light reading. heres the bill. a little poolside light reading. 142 pages of it. i want to know, when is a cut not a cut? this is really -- has been a big discussion since the paperwork actu...

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Grow together, that were going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, were not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy. so yes, there are some voices out there that think, i guess, that the federal government should not respond to a disaster, there are voices in congress, but i think they represent a very small minority of the american people. >> senator sanders, our hearts and our thoughts are with the people of vermont tonight, thank you so much for joini...

Together, that were going to grow together, that were going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, were not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy. so yes, there are some voices out there that think, i guess, that the federal government should not respond to a disaster, there are voices in congress, but i think they represent a very small minority of the american people. >> senator sanders, our hearts and our thoughts are with the people of vermont tonight...