Ryans Budget Proposal unveiled yesterday. We will of live coverage on cspan 3. We want you to weigh in on the budget blueprint. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Send this a tweet or post your comments on facebook. You can also email us. To give us more details about the budget unveiled by house budget chairman paul ryan, lauren french is joining us. She is the congressional reporter with politico. 5 trillion over the next decade. How does he propose saving that much money . It is kind of a hodgepodge of savings. Interests that the government will not save. We missed that little bit we have an audio hick up. Hiccup. The budget does call for a full repeal of the healthcare law. That will bring in about 1. 2 trillion of savings. There will be savings from medicare changes. He is counting interest the government will not pay on the debt. There is a hodgepodge, but the big bulk of it does come from repealing the healthcare law. How does that save so much money of democrats have said that obamacare actually reduces the deficit . I do you save money by getting rid of it . There will be a difference between how democrats and republicans view the savings. Paul ryan says if you are not giving up the subsidies, there will be savings. The subsidies are for lower income workers. The government will give them tax credits. To offset the cost. By repealing obamacare, paul ryan said that they are saving all of that money. Democrats are charging back that he is keeping all of the revenue raisers. He is going with the current revenue baseline. He is keeping obamacare revenue accounting the cost. There will be a lot of debate. Whether he is counting the medical device tax, the bellybutton tax. Im sure the debate will happen this morning when the House Budget Committee marks up this blueprint. Given that the administration announced yesterday that 7. 1 million americans signed up yesterday. What does paul ryan propose to do on the big entitlement programs like medicare . Medicare is one of his biggest changes. He is reupping a proposal he wanted to do last year, but eventually backed up on. He is going to change it to that voucher, the buyin program. Anyone who is 55 or younger will cap wrought into that will get brought into that. Anyone 56 and over will be grandfathered into the old system. This is something that republicans have long backed. This is something that paul ryan has specifically long back. He is finally making the change of putting it in his budget. Host what about Social Security . Guest not mentioned much in this budget. He said that this is the republican budget, not necessarily his plan. He wanted to do broad changes that most republicans agreed on. The focus is on medicare and medicaid. Host if it is not his plan what does that mean for prospects of a getting through the house . When will that happen . Guest the markup will be this morning and it is expected to Clear Committee without a lot of hassle and then it will go to the floor. They expected to come up next week. They have another bill coming up this week that does budget things and then they will move to paul ryans next week. It does look like they could possibly clear the floor. It depends on how much republicans on the really conservative side of the party throw up their arms about the spending cuts. A lot of republicans on the conservative side really did want to see higher cuts. Jeff kingston came out and said he could not come out in support it yet. If they cause a little bit of a hitccup, it could cause a problem for it passing. Last year, a number of republicans did not vote for the budget. It depends on what those 62 republicans do. The leadership is confident right now. You will see today how many republicans truly do have an issue with it. No one in the Democratic Party is going to move to support this. They have big problems with spending cuts to snap food stamps programs, to education. Host we are talking about the budget debate. Paul ryan unveiling the republican proposal yesterday. We want you to weigh in on what you think about the numbers. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Join us on social media. Twitter. Post your comments on facebook. Email us, journal cspan. Org. It is expected to Clear Committee today. It goes to the house floor. Not sure what the conservative house wing will do. If it does clear the house floor, what happens in the senate . It is doa in the senate. It does not go anywhere. Even if you suspend reality and see it Going Forward in the senate, president obama that is something that would not go through the white house. It is a budget resolution. It could not actually become law. It is much more of a symbolic document, a political document for paul ryan looking to establish republican priorities and ahead of the november election. Once it passes the house, it is possible that patty murray would call a vote on it. Seeing that she is not even putting up budget alternative out this year, it will probably peter out. Democrats will go with the agreement that paul ryan and patty murray made last year. The topline budget agreement. Patty murray has said that they do not need to put out a budget because they do not need to relitigate the numbers. Paul ryan and the republicans feel differently. They say they are legally obligated to put out a budget each year. Host we talked about some of the entitlement programs. What about the domestic side . Guest he is reupping a lot of past policy proposals. There are big changes to snap programs, the food stamp programs. He is trying to change the number of students that can be on the pel grant system. He is making sure that you are more than a halftime student. Education programs for research are being changed. Then there is the defense spending which increased and this budget. He criticized the president for not reacting to the defense concerns that are still there. He has mentioned the carrier fleets and naval fleets that would be decimated if the president s budget went forward. He offered more than what was allocated in the 2011 budget control act for defense spending. Host we are getting comments on twitter. And whenedwin tweets in this. Ron says does paul ryan tackle tax reform in his Budget Proposal . Guest he does. He offers a number of tax proposals. He wants to bring down top rates. He gets rid of the alternative minimum tax. He will try to make the tax filing system easier. He is condensing individual brackets. There are a lot of changes. He does not take the proposal from dave camp he goes a little bit differently and does drive down the rates to 25 . Dave camp was unable to do that because he kept a number of deductions. You will see a number of changes to the tax code. Host here is reaction from members of congress. James clyburn said Debbie Wasserman schultz leading the effort to get democrats reelected tweeted this tom price, a republican from georgia who worked with paul ryan on this budget briefed reporters yesterday. Here is a picture. The speaker did something a little bit different yesterday. He put this together on buzz feed. Lets turn to our viewers. Joe is in georgia. Republican. Caller i have been calling cspan for 35 years. The problem is that we need to cut spending. Our governor will cut spending in georgia and cut taxes. We are putting pressure to cut spending more. That is the problem. Host what do you think . Paul ryans budget . Is that enough . Caller i think it needs to be more. Republicans need to do a better selling job. We owe 17 trillion for our children and grandchildren to pay. It is good, but it is not enough. That is what we need to do, cut spending more. Host should they vote no on the house floor . Caller i think they should. We need to get a lot more spending cuts. That is what i hear from americans. Cut spending. We need to cut spending a lot more. Host springfield, virginia. Democratic caller. Caller hello . Host you are on the air. Caller yeah, i will say that paul ryans proposal is a joke. It tells you everything about the Republican Party. They have not done anything for this country. This is what they have been doing. It always takes a democrat to save this country. Host what specifically are you saying here that you dont like . Caller you cant create a budget and undercut the same people that this budget is supposed to help. The poor, the needy. There are two things that bring a nation into livelihood. Education and health care. Let me tell you one thing about this president. When obama said he was running for president , they say he is too black to be president. He ran against all the odds. Dont tell him he cant do anything. They said, he cant get health care passed. Now we have health care. One thing i would ask for the president to focus on is education. Republican cutting has nothing to do with it for this country. All they do is go to war. They will bring this country to its knees. Host charlie in maryland. Caller good morning, ladies. I wanted to point out that after lauren said that the conservative wing of the party would not like the spending cuts , that that is one of two reasons that the conservative wing does not like ryans budget. The second reason is that the ryan budget is a gimmick. Who puts out a tenyear budget and who will commit to that . It is not much different than the attempts to repeal obamacare. The conservative wing was greatly against those attempts because they were a facade, a gimmick, a trick to get reelected. Host on twitter brooklyn, new york. Republican caller. Caller yes hi. Paul ryan did not mention anything about reopening the white house to visitors and the children. I think it is kind of important. I was thinking maybe he can hire the navigators that he hired for the aca to come in there and do some work and get it open. Host robert, houston, texas. Caller good morning. I would like to make some comments about the paul ryan budget. I think that, as usual, the republicans are going to defend the people at the top and take money from the people at the bottom. Why he wants to reduce food stamps, but at the same time we out to be looking at why the tax code is so set up that it reflects the problems that we have with respect to collecting enough taxes. 25 years ago, corporations used to generate 20 25 of the taxes collected. Today, they generate less than 10 . It is paul ryan and his friends if they had anything to do with it, they would like to reduce it farther. Host lauren french, back to you. Does paul ryan talk about Poverty Issues in the budget . Does he talk about corporate taxes . Guest he does mention a few policy oriented programs, as well as corporate taxes. He wants to and corporate subsidies for energy producers. The governments pence 200 billion on tax credits for corporations. He wants to cut back on those due to nuclear energy. He has various other proposals aimed at poverty. Proposals on the earned income tax credit. He has talked heavily about that. Making it so that more people can claim that tax credit, which is one of those that republicans and democrats do agree lifts children out of poverty. There are some proposals and their about the tax could. The bulk of this budget does focus more on medicare and the banner numbers driving the top rates down to 25 and making the rest of the rates more compact. Host here is what nancy pelosi had to say yesterday after the unveiling of the republican budget. [video clip] today, the republicans put forth their budget. It is not about growth, it is not about job creation. It voucher rises medicare voucherizes medicare, weakening that opportunity for americas citizens. As we go forward, we will talk about the Affordable Care act. The question now is about the president s budget, which is about education and job growth and the future and the investment for the future and science and technology and the rest versus a budget that takes us backwards. It has a poverty of ideas that is really stunning. Host nancy pelosi outside the white house yesterday talking about paul ryans budget. Republicans will use this as a political document to run on for the next round of elections. The democrats plan to use it as well . Guest absolutely. Their economic message will be their strongest going into the Midterm Elections. They plan to focus on how democrats are better for the economy, job growth, middle and lower income workers. That is going to be an essential argument for theres in the Midterm Election theirs in the Midterm Election. Medicare will be a big talking point for democrats. They view privatization is selling out Older Americans s. You will hear those talking points as you head into the midterms over and over again. They are looking to hold onto vulnerable seats and possibly pick up seats. They want to double up on the success they had last year. They want to protect the senate. The best way they feel they can do that is really hammering republicans on the economic message. Guest paul ryan puts out the budget every year because he is the house budget chairman. For those who know him, he is a very wonky guy. He loves getting into the details. He really enjoys doing it. It is not a shock to any of us. He is going after the ways and Means Committee next. He likes the numbers and likes making them fit. He is absolutely an expert on capitol hill. Democrats might agree with his opinions, but when it comes to budget, he does know his stuff. Because of his chairmanship, that is why it is always paul ryan. Host we are getting your thoughts on paul ryans Budget Proposal unveiled yesterday. 5 trillion over 10 years. It will be marked up today in the House Budget Committee. We have 20 minutes or so left. The wall street Journal Editorial Board weighs in. His budget highlights the fiscal damage from slow Economic Growth. The big and the bad news has been the downshifting Economic Growth estimates. Cbo predicted average annual growth of 3 per decade. They cut the growth to 2. 9 . It is also a reflection of the new normal of obamanomics. The other notable difference is on defense. Ryans budget has enough to keep the army at current strength instead of cutting it by 80,000. The wall street journal applauding ryans budget. The New York Times also weighs in. Host glenn in lancaster, california. Caller good morning. I think we should raise tariffs on everything coming in from Foreign Countries and stuff the black market. We should create americanmade jobs for the american citizens and help all American People with raising tariffs up to about 48 from what it is now. The American People can do it, we are not lazy, we work hard. I have forked hard all my life. Host danny in south carolina. Caller how are you doing . Good morning. Host you are on the air. Caller i was calling about paul ryan. I totally disagree with them. I am a man who has done pretty good in life. He want to cut programs that hurt the poor people. He wants to cut food stamps. People need food stamps. What he want to cut things that hurt people that need help . That is all the republicans want to do. Republicans want to cut and hurt poor people. Host montgomery, alabama. Caller i am calling to talk about the budget. The gop does ocp. If anybody has ever seen robocop. They privatize everything. They try to take all of our money and give it to the rich people in subsidies and tax cuts. I have been saying this for years now. That is all they have been trying to do. Stop voting for them. Dont let them fool you. Theyre all for the same thing. Do not vote for the gop members. Period. Host the paul ryan budget includes repealing some of the benefits under the Affordable Care act. President obama yesterday announced that 7. 1 million americans have signed up in the first enrollment period. The Washington Post has a map inside the newspaper. The 25 cities the Obama Administration targeted for the Affordable Care act. The green states are on the federal exchanges. The gray states are state run exchanges. You can see the major cities that the Obama Administration focused on to try to reach this number. The New York Times says this about the Affordable Care act. That is from the New York Times this morning. We will talk about that coming up with lawmakers on washington journal. A little bit from president obama yesterday at the white house talking about the new numbers. [video clip] i want to make sure that everybody understands that in the months and years ahead, i guarantee you there will be additional challenges. There will be days when the website stumbles. I guarantee you. Press, i want you to anticipate there will be some moment when the website is down and i know what will be on all of your front pages. It is going to happen. It wont be news. [laughter] there will be parts of the law that will stoneleigh to be improved. That will need to be improved. If we can keep this from being gridlock, we could make the law work better for everybody. [applause] we are excited about the prospect of doing that. We are game. Host president obama talking about 7. 1 million americans who signed up for Health Insurance on healthcare. Gov. He will be traveling to michigan today to push for a hike in the minimum wage. The Washington Times front page has this headline. This will be added to the debate about whether or not to increase the minimum wage. We are getting your take. We have 15 minutes left on the Budget Proposal. Paul ryan says it will say 5 trillion, repeal the Affordable Care act. Frank in north dakota. Democratic caller. Caller this guy has not done anything for five years. What has he done . Repeal, repeal repeal. Get rid of him. The bastard. Host edward. Caller i have been liste