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Andrea, i serve on the budget committee and on the appropriations committee and i can tell you one thing, this budget quite frankly is immoral, and its sinister. when you look at the fact that we said early on, democrats, who did not vote, we did not vote for the tax cut, we said that we would see huge cuts in medicare, medicaid, social security. guess what? this budget verifies that. >> in a world of vetoes by tweet and open clashes with congress, donald trumps 2020 budget managed to slip under...

Submitting this request to congress is like having a job and asking your boss for a raise. and the president shows that he cares about building the wall, defense spending, and less about funding domestic nondefense programs. in this way she a small government republican. he is talking about cuts to epa, the state department, the transportation department, and the department of justice. he said he would protect medicare. this budget calls for an $845 billion to medicare.

They stretch into monday, thats when people are really going to start to feel the government shutdown, thats when youre going to see federal workers affected by this, i think it could last a really long time here. both sides are dug in. theres no signs of life on capitol hill right now. as of last night at 8:00 -- if this is any sign of where things are in the talks, the house is actually debating and fighting over whether the republicans yesterday could use a poster of chuck schumer on the hous...

>> grow everything, but perhaps by a lesser magnitude. say, maybe a dollar for defense, one dollar increase to defense. 30 cent increase equivalent for nondefense programs. elizabeth: if youre a member of the military. how do you react to this? if youre not sure what the funding is going to look like? how do you react for that? >> its a huge problem for the pentagon. its the largest agency. half trillion annually they do long-term, five to 30 year planning. its disruptive to a department that bu...

Protection agency. i know donald trump doesnt like it and the head of the e.p.a. doesnt like it, but americans like that rule companies cant dump stuff in your water. >> it could be a gray area. because the e.p.a. is important and the title, environmental protection agency doesnt mean theres not fat to cut. >> theres fat all over the government to cut. >> its low level nondefense programs. we have had budget fights and big deficits and its impossible to cut medicare and social security. the mili...

Hacksaw approach to spending reductions that was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate cut to nondefense programs and republicans wouldnt stand cuts to the military. the theory was the cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen, but after months of deliberations, the supercommittee couldnt come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. now, sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens, that was the s...

Reductions that was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate cut to nondefense programs and republicans wouldnt stand cuts to the military. the theory was the cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen, but after months of deliberations, the supercommittee couldnt come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. now, sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens, that was the same time the so-called bush t...

Hacksaw approach to spending reductions that was supposed to hit both sides equally. democrats would hate cut to nondefense programs and republicans wouldnt stand cuts to the military. the theory was the cuts would be so bad there was no way congress would ever allow them to happen, but after months of deliberations, the supercommittee couldnt come to any agreement and simply gave up. so much for theory. now, sequestration was to go into effect on january 1st, 2013. as it happens, that was the s...

Blunt, raw message to president obama and the democrats. its time to get off your keisters and do something. peter doocy live in washington with more. peter, good morning. >> good morning. and the latest word from the white house is that sequestration wont really be felt until late march or early april because thats when all the harsh automatic cuts will start kicking in through the rest of this year, those cuts would take 13% out of the pentagons budget. 9% away from nondefense programs, and 11...

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