includes 1.5 billion-dollar down payment for the u.s./mexico border wall. chief correspondent john roberts is live for us with more on that story. hi, john. heather, good morning to you. we talked to mick mulvaney he said what it did the office of management and budget went through everything the president talked about on the campaign trail and developed a budget policy for it that s what we see out today. some spending increases, but slashing spending elsewhere. a couple of the big ticket items, first of all, an additional $54 billion in defense spending. 52 of that will go to the department of defense. another 2 billion for other departments. dhs will see an increase of 6.8%. that s about $3 billion. veterans affairs, their budget will go up 6%. that s about $4.4 billion. now, in order to pay for all of this, without increasing the deficit, because that s one of the lines that the president wanted to hold here, those spending increases have to be offset with spending decreases else
billion on and $52 billion to the dod and department of homeland security for $3 billion. veterans affairs goes up by 6%, $4.4 billion. in order to pay for this without increasing the deficit they ll be slashing spending across the rest of the discretionary budget. these are not little cuts, these are deep ones as well. let s put some of those up on the screen as you follow along here. state department will have a 28% yes, 28% decrease in its budget. much of that from the foreign aid $10.1 billion is what s being cut. a 31% decrease at the environmental protection agency the elimination of 3, 200 jobs and hhs decreased by $15.1 billion and a thorough reorganization of the national institutes of health proposed in this budget. the budget of directors also
duck. you re failure is now complete. you were faced with a generational challenge to save americans from the type of collapse european countries are now facing, and you blinked. actually, you did worse. instead of eradicating a historic threat that could have been solved by simple math, you ran for cover. watching the super committee all trot out their tire lined on the sunday talk shows make me sick. democrats were blabbing on about hiking taxes and republicans were prattling on about slashing spending. both were accusing the other side of intransigents while standing in a block of ideological cement. how pathetic. this is two times since august. since summer. congress presented with a chance to do its job. and it s failed, both parties. both parties will blame the other and try to assign more blame. i contend as judd gregg did in one of the papers yesterday, i think a lot of people are going to lose. i don t think they appreciate how fully american families, american businesses ar
how fast can you do it and where would that money come from? it all depends on the people understanding and the congress willing to go with this. but you could do it at one time. people say it s impossible to do this. but we had a pretty good history of slashing spending after world war ii. we brought $10 million home and cut taxes and the economy was revived. you don t are have to wait. my program is designed to do it, like said in the clip there, yes, student loans should be phased out. and there is a fund that will tied some people over. but it is a failed program. and my argument is that it s unconstitutional. so much what we do now not only is it not only is it unconstitutional, we don t have the money. the question is how serious do the other candidates and the people of the country think the debt is? i happen to think it is very serious. like you pointed out, i was
every dime in this bill that is cut is a dime that washington will spend if we leave it on the table. is it perfect? no. i d be the first one to admit that it s flawed. well, welcome to divided government. yesterday the house also approved two resolutions that would have blocked funding for planned parenthood and the president s health care overhaul, but the passage was largely symbolic since both measures failed in the senate. later today, the house will set the stage for an even bigger budget fight by voting on a 2012 spending blueprint from budget committee chairman paul ryan. the republican proposal that is expected to pass promises to cut more than $6 billion from the budget that president obama offered in february by slashing spending and shrinking federal involvement in medicare and medicaid, but the plan does face a grim future in the democratic controlled at some and the president has been targeting the plan as he gears up for his