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You have to lose? turns out what they have to lose $6 billion that goes to programs that benefits those communities. what do you say -- >> nobody will get kicked out of their houses. we looked at the hud budget. i talked to dr. carson about this. we looked at government building and infrastructure. what secretary carson and i talked about is a way to do it better. we realized were working on a large infrastructure for example that we hope to roll out this summer. what secretary carson wants to d...

Truth. secretary tillerson has had one diplomatic success on the deal he cut with iraq. this budget protects that core of the state department. it so much happens that the foreign aid that the president talked about, much of the money goes to climate research, green energy, are in the state department budget. if the line items were in the department of commerce, you would see the department commerce having gone down by a similarly large percentage. the answer to your question is, most of the cut...

President done think diplomacy is important, nothing could be fath farther from the truth. the president believe ifs diplomacy and we believe this protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens that much of the foreign aid that the president talked about in campaign. much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy are in the state department budget if those line items had been in the department of commerce you would have seen the department of commerce gone...

Specifically the urban black voters he said what do you have to lose, turns out at least $6 billion what do you say? >> nobody is going to get kicked out of their houses. when we looked at the hud but jet -- budget and i talked to dr. carson about it today. its actually infrastructure and what secretary carson and i talked about is figuring out a way to do that bet around we realized we are working on a large infrastructure this summer. he wants to take the money in the infrastructure in hud rig...

Results. we cant do that anymore. we cant spend money on programs just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. thats a state decision to fund that particular portion, to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we to want give you money for programs that dont work. i cant defend that anymore. we cannot defend that anymore. $20 trillion in debt. were going to spend money, were going to spend a lot of money but were not going to spend it on programs that show ...

Towards science and nasa? >> it does. if you go back through the presidents speeches, we tried to identify his priorities. one of the things he told us is, look, im still interested in america being involved in space exploration. even though the overall top line is reduced by a fraction, 0.8%, as you mentioned, individual line items that al with specifically space exploration are actually plussed up. part of the intent there is to promote what you just talked about. yes, sir. >> two questions. y...

Nothing could be further from the truth. weve already seen secretary tillerson has had tremendous one diplomatic success on the deal he cut with iraq. the president believes in diplomacy. we believe this budget protects that core function of the state department. it just so happens much of the foreign aid the president talked about in his campaign, much of the money that goes to climate research, green energy, those types of thins are actually in the state department budget. if those line items ...

Sector and show a commitment on the administrations part towards science and nasa. >> it does, if you go back to the speeches the president made and talking about his prioritiespriorities and he said im still interested in the united states being involved in space exploration, but individual line items that deal with specifically space exploration is -- up. and part of it is to promote what you just talked about. >> experience in the house tells you that a lot of these cuts havent been voted for...

Increases within the department of justice invisas within the department of homeland security. including border security, immigration controls. increases within the department of energy to deal with nuclear triad and corresponding reductions in similar amounts off-setting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction if you have seen the budget all right is 31% reduction within the environmental protection agency, the next largest on a percentage basis is with the department of stat...

Increases in the department of homeland security for border security and immigration controls. increases within the department of energy to deal with a nuclear triad. corresponding reductions offsetting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction is a 31% within the environmental protection agency. the next largest production on a percentage basis is department of state and the other departments are reduced in lesser amounts. the smallest reduction we have is nasa, which is just l...