Give us a call, republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch us catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning and you can start calling in now as we talk about the president s fiscal 2019 Budget Proposal and what is being reported is the plan does not include the goal of balancing the budget over the next 10 years. Here is the Washington Post on that this morning. President trump slated to announce a new budget plan that will no longer seek to eliminate the deficit over a decade, forfeiting a major republican goal. The plan will call for a range of spending cuts that reduce the growth of the deficit by 3 trillion over 10 years, but it will not attempt to balance the federal budget. It will relinquish the deficit the goal comes after President Trump pushed a 1. 5 trillion tax cut through late last year and signed budget deal last week that lists federal spending limits and suspends the ceiling on the National Debt and is expected to lead the 1 trillion annual budget deficit. The story noting the aim of balancing budgets over 10 years a budget plans has been northstar for Republican Party budget plans for several decades. This morning, we want to get your thoughts and comments. You can give us a call and join us on social media on facebook. The comments already this morning. Including this one from doug who writes i cannot agree with this futureis other peoples we are spending and we havent the right to leave this on them. Below that, edward writes democrats should be behind this . Joe says those fiscal hawks were lying to us all the time . Now they are go, go republicans. Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. We will get right to it. Elvis is in clearwater, florida, line for democrats. Good morning. Caller hello . Host go ahead. Theyve got to balance the budget more for helping people with disabled abilities and stuff like that and help more people. Host ok. To david in maryland, the line tip for the line for independents. Caller good morning. Thank you for my call. Republicanss the never care about deficits, only when democrats are in office. The only thing they really cared about was the bush era tax cuts under obama and now theyve got happy. They are they dont care about fiscal responsibility and they definitely dont care about the middleclass. Over and shown that over again. Under reagan, what happened when the economy is doing well, we are supposed to pay down the debt. The economy is supposed to work. Its ok to go into debt, but when the economy does well, we are supposed to pay down the debt. The stock market came back, corporate profit, most importantly, came back. Corporate profits are up, the stock market is up, everything is back, why arent wages going up . Up, butdnt go everything is back. If the economy is doing well, why do they need the stimulus . Host walt is a republican, pittsburgh. Good morning. Whyer i am just wondering you people on cspan here, the moderators, never seem to care when you want to increase all kinds of social programs like throw money away, it is ok. Now trump is spending money on defense and its a big deal. He doesnt care about the budget anymore. Host we care about what you think on this topic. Some polling on that from the Washington Post story, the deficit has faded as an issue of public concern. In a january poll from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family 14 dation, 7 of voters of self identified republicans and in comparison, combined 29 of voters in march of 2011 told bloomberg the deficit was their top issue. Reporting this point that President Trumps budget plan, which is set to be sent to capitol hill this morning, will not include that traditional goal of balancing the budget over 10 years. For more reporting on what we will see when that hits capitol hill from politico, President Trump is expected to renew his call for drastic reductions to nondefense programs in rolling out his budget request on monday. Even with hundreds of billions of dollars of new cash in hand. Allowing for an stress 300 billion to be spent over the the trumpears, administration is still urging severe austerity for some arms of the federal government. The budget will lay out an aggressive set of spending. Eforms to reduce the deficit politico noting as Washington Post does that one important note, the budget is not balanced, unlike virtually every other republican plan. Is in bill we, maryland, the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have to laugh. For eight years all they talked about was the budget, the deficit, how we are going into so much debt. However, here we are, its another time. The man from pennsylvania ilking about social programs, know he has got to be honest Social Security and medicare. What does he think he is on . Those are social programs. Ive agree i agree with everything the man from maryland said about the economy being great and everything, why are we going extending our deficit and our debt . Thank you. Host on twitter, fred writes at least President Trump is honest. If congress is not going to cut spending, theres no point balancing the budget. Gary from virginia, line for republicans. Go ahead. Caller there has always been a deficit if you look at the stats over the last 40 years, the amount of money the government added to the debt constantly increases. Nobody complained about the deficit of 1 trillion plus per year under obama and now suddenly you have trump in office and everybody complains. Chris, colorado springs, colorado, independent. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call, cspan. I have called this morning to china xi jinping said of some months ago, he said we want to be americas friend, but we can also be their enemy. We cannot allow our president to direct us into a course of displaying bombs and trades as other countries have done who are trying to westernize. I support Bernie Sanders for president in 2020 and the legalization of cannabis or marijuana. Host we are talking about the budget President Trump is set to send to capitol hill today. One of the key voices you will hear from is mick mulvaney. He will be talking more about the budget. He was on sunday talk shows yesterday previewing what the public would see this week and he was asked this question about rising deficits and debt. Here is that conversation. [video clip] this moneypending now and having deficits projected at more than 1 trillion in a growing nonrecessionary economy a good idea . Its a very dangerous idea, but it is the world we live in. We want money to defend the nation. We believe general mattis has made the case to democrats and republicans in the public, that we need more money to defend the nation against threats like north korea. We were hoping we could sit down with democrats and figure out a way to get additional funds to the military. Publicly, emma kratz said they wanted to democrats said they wanted to help fund, privately, they said they would not give a single dollar for defense unless we gave them social projects. You knew they were going to say that. Publicly they were saying they cared about the fence, but when the rubber meets the road, they held the Defense Department hostage and we had to pay that ransom. Host that was the budget deal that came together last week and the white house submitting its 2019 budget plan to congress today. It will include some 3 trillion in reductions to the deficit over 10 years, but not the traditional republican goal of balancing the budget over 10 years and thats what we are talking about this morning. That expectation from what we will see in that budget release. Scott, annapolis, maryland, line for republicans. Caller you have the government you deserve whether you are a democrat or republican. Each side has pushed the deficit up. We have allowed it to happen. We want our social programs whether you are republican or democrat. Nobody wants to cut the programs. The money has got to come from somewhere and yet, now, we have had 8 years prior where the deficit went up 8 trillion and now its going up another 1 trillion and its like some surprise. The American People, you have the government you deserve. Thank you. Host mark is in louisiana, independent, go ahead. Your title i found misleading, President Trump to drop balanced budget deal, he hasnt totally dropped it. He dropped in this twoyear cycle. Said, the guy you showed earlier, they held republicans hostage over defense. They would not give any rises in our defense to protect the country. They sickly, they had to give in. I guess the question is who is willing basically, they had to give in. I guess the question is who is willing to balance the budget for our security . I found the title misleading because its really the fault of everybody, democrats were not willing to meet up with republicans. Republicans were not willing to meet up with democrats. Ourre so political, even media, so political. I try to listen to everything. I try to listen to npr, washington journal. I very much appreciate washington journal. We need to find a way to be physical who do we turn to . That is the question i wish you would ask, who do americans turned to now . Host who do you think they should turn to . Caller independents. I think this is a time we need an independent party to take over. Obviously republicans and democrats cannot do it. We need an independent party. We need an independent voice, somebody that will actually told the line. Tow we dont have to be so partisan. If you want to know how bad it is, they cannot even investigate congress cannot even investigate without being highly partisan. I dont ever remember it being this bad. Am old. Am young, but i i remember reagan, nixon. Donaldson giving reagan a lot of grief. This is everybody, the media picks sides, democrats and republicans pick sides. I think we need an independent party, we need somebody but who is that going to be . Host that is mark in louisiana. In terms of pushback on increased spending in that twoyear deal that came together last week, fiscal conservatives on capitol hill critical of the spending in that deal, including members of the conservative caucus. Eedom crocus a member of that caucus was also on face the nation over the weekend and here is what face the nation over the weekend and heres what he had to say. [video clip] a lot of spending and declarations that mean the House Freedom caucus is toast. I think we have had a number of articles written about our demise for many years, that we are here fighting on behalf of the americans who feel like washington, d. C. , has forgotten them. I can tell you the real problem with this particular one is our ,eadership caved, the swamp won and the american taxpayer lost. And the Republican Leadership caved. Without a doubt. Our original play was to make sure we funded the military and kept other spending flat. , but whatat we passed we got on the house floor was this unbelievable budget deal that spent american taxpayer dollars. Host that was mark meadows yesterday on face the nation. Despite that criticism, this article this morning from the Washington Post, the muted response of to the deficit from the right. Temper the reaction to the budget busting deal, still talking about the deal from last week. One conservative greeter who was granted anonymity said the republicancontrolled government racked up some goodwill with the passage of sweeping tax overhaul bill and by rolling back obama era regulations. Without those a compliment, the blowback to the budget would have been more severe, that person said in that story about the response from the right. When it comes to that budget deal, 67 House Republicans voted against it. 167 House Republicans voted for it last week. Getting your thoughts this morning on the president s fiscal 2019 budget, which is expected to drop today and expected not to include a provision to balance over the next 10 years. We want to hear from you. Malcolm, waldorf, maryland, line for democrats. Go ahead. Malcolm, go ahead. Caller hello . Host go ahead. Caller i want to respond to what a caller said earlier about everybody complaining about nota increasing complaining about obama increasing the deficit, but complaining about trump. The reason we are complaining is you had a guy campaigning about , he is notficit cost doing that and that is why we are complaining. Host catherine, new hampshire, line for independents. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I have a suggestion on how to balance our budget and pay off our National Debt. Many countries have thermonuclear weapons or nuclear weapons, i am not sure what you call it. If deliberately or by accident, these weapons are used, it will not matter if you are a good country or an evil country, there will be no winners. All people will die from direct attacks, radiation fallout, and starvation due to a global Winter Nuclear winter. The world needs to stop and we would save money here in the u. S. We need to stop this Nuclear Insanity and three suggestions of what to read. Read Time Magazine february felt, the new nuclear poker, and missiles factor, read the doomsday machine by Daniel Ellsberg and watch the dvd the road. World adults need to grow up. Host dave is in ohio, the line for independents. Good morning. Caller top of the morning to you, sir. I wish to be a fiscally responsible republican. Now that basically trump has gone away and done away with the balanced budget, even the idea of it, i can no longer consider myself a republican. Neither one of these parties have any responsibility to the people of this country. We are 21 trillion in debt right now and adding to it at a rate of 1 trillion a year. Sooner or later, that debt is going to come due. If you want to know what it looks like, just look at greece. The people at the top are not going to pay. Its going to be us, the normal people, that are going to have to take austerity measures and they are not pretty. Host and if you want to know what that debt looks like in real time, you can go to u. S. Debt clock. Org, a running tally debt, 20. 6national trillion. The debt per citizen comes out to about 63,000 per citizen. The federal budget deficit at expected5 billion and to go up. Expectations of a trillion dollar deficit in the coming year. We are talking this morning about the president s fiscal 2019 budget request that hit capitol hill today. Is in kentucky. The line for democrats. Good morning. Caller thank you, cspan, for taking my call. Most intelligent people understand you cannot run the government like a business and you cannot balance the budget. Deficit spending has been a reality for many, many years. Ishink president bush showing his colors, little more democrats and people realize. Host are you talking about President Trump . Caller yes. Host david from california, the line for republicans. Go ahead. Caller i think the deficit is really a nonissue and i dont know why a lot of people get upset about it. Everyone that has a job, has a job. Theres an amount of money they make on a monthly basis. Most people have credit cards, that is the deficit. Every year, my credit limit goes up. Every year, americas credit limit goes up. They have a bigger credit limit than we do. I dont really get why people get upset about deficit spending, its just the word. At some point in time, we are going to spend more money than we take in, and its not a problem because its all a specific point in time and theres no need to freak out because we are going to get the money back and pay it off and do it over and over again like we do in our homes. Every month i pay my Credit Card Debt and then i pay my bills just like the American Government does. Its really a nonissue, its just used to divide people and make it feel like theres not a problem where it does not exist. Host wendy you foresee the government paying off when do you first see the government paying off 20 trillion in debt . Caller over time it will get paid. Its not going to sit there and go default because america is too valuable to the world to have its debt go into default. Its not going to happen. Host that is david in california this morning. This is the lead editorial from the financial times, americas balancing act on that grows trickier. The trajectory of the u. S. Debt burden is disquieting. The country is headed by all accounts for deficits of at least 1 trillion a year, which amounts to 5 or more of grossed grossod product domestic product. Now at 80 of gdp will pass 100 before the decade is out of the current policies are sustained. The question is whether the even higher debt will do the country much harm and if so, when . America can cover a lot of carry a lot of debt, but as the burden grows, the margin for error shrinks. If you want to read the Editorial Board of financial times, that is in todays paper. Raymond, michigan, the line for democrats. Go ahead. Caller yes. Said that as far back , the debtncy doesnt go up. Before the president was on theama, he verge of cutting the deficit in half. Now here we go again. What a mess. Chicago. Mike, in for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning, thank you for having me. I have a different take on this. I have filed a federal lawsuit in the District Of Columbia saying that deficit spending, datory spending, and violate the value of my vote. 2000 2016, 90 8 of the budget is was spent. That case is sitting in the court of appeals and it will be heard by a panel of federal judges. Since congress will not do anything, i have written up and filed for the first time in American History that deficit spending violate my voting rights, so we will see what happens. Host what is the name of the case of people want to check it out . Guest the name of the case is michael junior versus the United States of america and the case number is 175243. Host mike, is