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More than compensating for that, is the fact that we have passed unpaid for tax cuts, unpaid for spending increases. congress is fast passing deficit finance legislation so quickly, i believe the president has signed in over $4 trillion of debt increases into law. and no surprise -- >> is that what you mean by self-imposed? >> this is coming from legislation that congress is passing. and the president is signing, so this in many ways is reflective not of a weak fiscal situation that comes from t...

Deficit will widen to a trillion dollars for the 2020 fiscal year. im joined now by the president of the committee for a responsible federal budget, ben goldberger executive editor at "time" magazine that has a new issue out today, the left behind economy produced in partnership with the fuller project a nonprofit newsroom that reports on issues impacting women. does any of this surprise you? >> unfortunately, its not a surprise because so much of whats happening fiscally was entirely predictabl...

Concerns on capitol hill that he might back away from the deal at the last minute. >> i think it is a deal that will get through. >> it isnt everything we hoped for but it got through the debt ceiling. >> reporter: the deal pushes off another fight over the budget and debt until after the 2020 election and authorized $1.37 trillion in spending each year for the next two years. republicans touting the $45 billion increase in military spending. >> from the military point of view, it is much needed...

The domestic side which democrats want. that two-year suspension. debt ceiling is huge, it takes a catastrophic crisis off the table until after the election. in terms of offsets, thats been the big back-and-forth, spending hawks want a lot of spending increases offset. about $75 billion is where negotiators ended up. one thing republicans are seizing on is at least a verbal agreement or acknowledgement from speaker nancy pelosi that they will not seek to put in poison pills, as they call them, ...

And elena train. elena. lets start with you, this is a big budget. $4.7 trillion is a big ask for the border wall. we know there will be political friction there. what do you make of the plan itself? >> the thing to keep in mind, these budgets put forth by the white house are more symbolic measures. this is dead on arrival as some democrats have said over the weekend before it was even released. so congress sets these spending levels. it does show the white houses priorities for 2020. the big th...

Of a combination of the tax cuts and spending increases which were bipartisan. democrats and republicans got to the to do spending increases. but the consequences is woof do weve done nothing as far as the did have si-- deficits, an additional $12 trillion on top watch we have now. >> and john heilemann, hes talking about trade deficits when hes talking about national debts and -- >> its absolutely shocking to me you would suggest donald trump does not have a firm grasp on macro economic data.

Margin squeeze many companies had to pay as tariffs went up. that goes away on year-over-year profit gain in the first quarter because the tax cut plays out. we have big spending increases. those increases are adding to the corporate -- the national debt, along with corporate debt we have out there, all of that has interest expense and the interest expense is going up. these are all things we need to deal with. >> i will ask my control room if theyve got the chart. one of the things thats import...

Absorbed the fact that the economy is growing for quite sometime. president trump talks about record streak of private sector job creation. most of that record, obviously, was amassed under the presidency of barack obama. he inherited -- trump inherited a good economy. things have gotten accelerated in part because of the stimulus. deficit financed stimulus from the tax cut and from spending increases. but people kind of get that we havent had a revolution in the economy under president trump an...

Twitter this week so im glad youre here. what kind of impact would a 5% budget cut have on these departments and to our overall deficit? >> it would have a significant impact. these would be the biggest cuts since eisenhower was president. but theres no point in really talking about it because theres never going to happen and president trump has shown no inclination whatsoever to actually cut spending. huge spending increases. under his presidency. you know, up 17%, nearly $2 trillion in new deb...

Its growing by 2.4%. the rate of growth is slowing. in 2020, the projection slips to just 1.7%. that is not all. keep in mind, the president keeps saying 4, 5, 6%. these are the numbers were actually talking about. the cbo has fresh projections now for the u.s. budget deficit, topping $1 trillion by fiscal year 2020. that is up, by the way, from $804 billion in 2018 and $981 billion in 2019. the spiking deficit courtesy of a $1 trillion in tax cuts and roughly $300 billion in new spending increa...