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President obama for supposedly cutting embassy security? >> thats one of those line items i leave up to secretary tillerson. he and i talked about the state department budget and how he decides to allocate that. may be there are some embassies that dont need more and some that do. so we gave him the flexibility. the gentleman in the back. >> many countries around the globe thinks the president will cut the foreign aid because most of the countries getting the aid were not with the u.s. supportin...

Inkre increase -- >> thats one of those line items we leave up to secretary siller son. we talked about the state department budget and how he decides to allocate that. it may be there are some embassies that dont need a lot more security and some that do, so we give him the flexibility to do that. the gentleman in the back had a question. >> many countries around are worried president trump will cut countries getting u.s. aid, with u.s. supporting targets against u.s. and not working with u.s. ...

Results. we cant do that anymore. we cant spend money on programs because they sound good. great. meals on wheels is great. its a state decision to fund that particular portion of it. take the federal money and give it to the states and say we want to give you money for programs that dont work. we cant defend that anymore. wooer going to spend money, spend a lot of money but not on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we made to people. >> talk about programs th...

Voters, he says, what do you have to lose? it turns out what they have to lose is $6 billion that goes to many programs that benefit those communities. what do you say to those americans -- >> nobodys going to get kicked out of their houses. when we looked at the hud budget we tried to figure out how to spend money better. i talked to dr. carson about this today. what we saw when we went through the analysis was hud budget is a lot of money got spent on government housing, building it. its actua...

Communities. what do you say to those americans -- >> nobodys going to get kicked out of their houses. when we looked at the hud budget we tried to figure out how to spend money better. i talked to dr. carson about this today. what we saw when we went through the analysis was hud budget is a lot of money got spent on government housing, building it. its actually infrastructure. what secretary carson and i talked about is figuring out a way to do that better. we realized we are working on a large...

Theres still a deficit. we didnt add to that in order to spend more money on the presidents priorities regarding moving projects out of the base bujz for the agencies and into the infrastructure, the infrastructure program is something we just recently started. it probably wont come until summer or maybe even early fall. we have to do obamacare repeal and replace first, then tax reform second. that leaves infrastructure third. so, youre making an assumption im not willing to make. youre making a...

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. your experience in the house tells you ...

Security and immigration control. increases within the department of energy to deal with nuclear try yad. corresponding reductions and similar amounts offsetting dollar for dollar in other programs. the largest reduction if youve seen the budget already is a 31% reduction within the environmental protection agency. the next largest on percentage basis is department of state, and the other departments are reduced in lesser amounts. i think the smallest reduction we have is nasa which is less than...

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 they deliver the promises we made to people. >> do work or dont wo...

American strength, security, and resolve. >> bret: kevin corke in the white house briefing room. thank you. lets get some insight on the budget blueprint for joining us is the white house budget chief mick mulvaney. >> thanks for having me. >> bret: if you are to explain to somebody in an elevator with this was and you have 30 seconds, what would you tell them? >> topline number, your family sits down and says heres what were going to spend this year on three or four large line items. thats what...