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Worst outbreak in years. some senior nutrition programs would be paused. 200,000 passport applications went unprocessed in 1995. congress funds much of the scientific research in this country. that meant some peermts went on hold in 2013 and suffered costly losses of data. in space same year, for more than two weeks, nasa reportedly stopped monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids. a big one, by the way, is expected to brush by oerearth o february for youth. as for the 417 national parks, the ...

Work. and weve got to work on that. >> joining me now is presidential candidate and independent senator bernie sanders from vermont. senator, you say this was the republican plan all along. create more debt by cutting taxes and then expressing desire to cuts to social welfare programs. >> this is just extraordinary. what it amounts to a massive transfer of wealth to the middle class to the working families to the top 1% and large corporations. look, in the republican plan, 62% of the tax benefit...

>> 30 million? >> youre wrong. >> im not wrong. >> you are wrong. >> its a false statement. >> you wanted to repeal the affordable care act. >> you better believe it. >> 30 million people losing their health insurance. these guys right now in this bill, if their bill here in the senate will pass, it will result in 13 million people losing their health insurance, premiums going up by 10%. if their bill goes through, if you are in graduate school, youre going to be paying substantially more in tax...

With? >> well, i think you may be right. thats what frightens me a little bit. if i tell you were taking away your health insurance, youre going to say youre not going to do that, im going to fight you. if i say billionaires are getting a huge tax increase, its complicated what you may or may not get. but what we have to point out is that these tax proposals among many other things and many other provisions in it would create a $1.5 trillion increase in our deficits. what the republicans were ve...

$1.5 trillion increase in our deficits. what the republicans were very clear about is saying that what we will then do and they were clear in the budget, we will cut medicaid by a trillion dollars, medicare by over $400 billion, pell grants, nutrition programs, so if they do this, trust me, the day after they will come back talking about social security, medicare and medicaid and the need to cut those programs. >> what is your big takeaway from democrats victory on tuesday night? >> well, obviou...

But it also strikes me someone like mick mulvaney, who wrote this budget by all appearances, genuinely believes in what hes doing. i mean the republicans who are proposing this, it is not politically popular, and it just seems to me they have affirmatively chosen this because they genuinely believe in the project they are engaged in. >> well, i wouldnt go so -- the answer is yes and no. they believe in it, but it doesnt hurt that the koch brothers, over many, many years, have spent hundreds and ...

Cutting pell grants, cutting nutrition programs, very politically unplafopular. but on the other hand, they have unlimited sums of money from the billionaire class behind them to go after -- democrats go after anybody who stands in their way. >> so heres a question then politically in terms of where this goes next. weve had a hard time finding republican whos will talk about the trump budget and defend it. its not politically popular. you have republican colleagues of yours in the senate saying ...

About the presidents budget. is it dead on arrival? >> yes. >> you have a lot of benghazis in the making if this became law. >> it will be a catfight here in the congress. >> short and to the point for senators on both sides of the aisle. on the presidents new budget proposal to help guide us through the details of it is msnbcs ali velshi. this is, obviously, a wish list. >> yes, night its the articulation of the governments priorities. lets get to that first part of it. this is winners. these a...

>> joining me now, the president and ceo of meals on wheels america, ellie hollander, thank you for coming in. full disclosure, i was a meals on wheels volunteer with my mom growing up in indiana, i was just talking to her about our shared experiences this morning with regard to our volunteer work. what was your reaction when you heard the budget director say your program doesnt work? what was your reaction? >> kate, first of all, thanks for volunteering, and we appreciate that. meals on wheels ...

For re-election as a senator from vermont and he showed no reservations when it came to attacking his republican opponent. >> john, i think you did say, if i remember correctly, that the ryan budget was quote/unquote, too timid and you would be bolder. did you say that? >> i did. i did. >> and lets be clear, what the ryan budget does is make devastating cuts in virtually every social program. $700 billion over a ten-year program in medicaid, ending medicare as we know it right now, major cuts in...