Host you can also catch up with us on social media. Host a very good monday morning to you. The president s fiscal 2016 plan which kicks in october 1, proposes to spend 3. 99 trillion on the budget plan, just under 4 trillion, and projects revenues of 3. 53 join dollars. That would leave a budget deficit of four and 74 billion kit that will be the topic of conversation throughout the this morning on washington journal and is the topic of conversation on the front page of many newspapers. Los Angeles Times budget aims to boost middleclass. Over to the front page of the wall street journal this morning, obama opens bidding on taxes. Front page of the denver post this morning president would find huge projects for corporate with Corporate Taxes is the headline there. This is how the New York Times puts it. Should washington worry about what may be the defining economic issue of the era, the widening gap between the rich and everyone else, or should policymakers primarily seek to address a mountain of debt at the white house hopes to control but only marginally reduce as a share of the economy . The budget is thicker than a phone book and multiple lines will be a starting point for that discussion with congress representing his aspirations, not the final word. You will get your calls in just a second, but we want to turn to a reporter for rollcall, joining us once again on washington journal. Even before the budget arrives on capitol hill, republicans have been panning the information that is come out of other programs that are in it. Is the budget dead on arrival when it arrives this morning . Guest well, the budget is dead on arrival just as it is in the same sense as it is most years on capitol hill, particularly whenever you have divided government. The budget what the budget document is used for by the white house, regardless of party, is to lay out his vision for how in sort of an idealized world it would restructure parts of the government, restructure parts of the tax code. And where the executive branch would prioritize investments if it were left to its own devices. But since it is divided government, what really happens is that you will see lawmakers in both parties try and go through this document and on one man certainly pan things, and you have seen that from republicans, but you will see lawmakers in both parties go through the document and try to find things and match things that the frb proposed and they are otherwise interested that they have already proposed and they are otherwise interested in to pick out little pieces in order to advance their own priorities and find places they might be able to find Common Ground with the white house. Host what are the areas of potential agreement in the spending plan . Guest well, one of the things that has released a little bit, came out over the weekend, is the significant investment that is being sought to get a full sixyear Service Transportation highway built on highway bill done. It is a certainty, i think, already that the particular mechanism of paying for it using attacks using eight tax on foreign profits and foreign earnings, the way the white house has structured that and the way the treasury department, i suppose, would be proposing that, its not something that is going to be viewed terribly favorably at the capitol, but there is a bipartisan understanding that there is a gap in the funding for the Highway Trust Fund, and if people are actually willing to come to the table and find some other alternative tax policy reason or way to pay for it that is one area where you might find Common Ground. The other thing, going through some documentation that has come out this morning, we are noticing that there is a 561 billionbased defense funding request in here, along with another amount of money 58 billion dollars for the overseas Contingency Operations fund. I think there is bipartisan perhaps, agreement that the defendant level defense level has got to the above where it was in the sequester and that is another area where we will try to find Common Ground. Host talked us through what is going to happen specifically today after the budget arrives and the coming days this week. Guest well, one of the things that is happening today in particular is you will see the president himself going to the department of Homeland Security to lay out his Budget Proposal. That leaves with it the implication that the president is probably going to be talking at least at some level not of anything in the fiscal 2016 budget but in the upcoming looming crisis in the fiscal 2015 spending situation with the department of Homeland Security funding, which runs out towards the end of february. You will see Agency Briefings by the office of management and budget in an assortment of apartments and agencies that will all have Conference Calls or briefings to outline their various plans, and then what happens very quickly is that the attention turns to capitol hill when the books are delivered at people at people have a chance to digest things just a little bit. You will see agency heads and i won the and omb going back and forth to the hill and outlining their vision ahead of the drafting ahead of the of the annual budget resolution by lawmakers in the capitol. Host Niels Lesniewski writes for cqroll call. Check out his work on rollcall. Com. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you. Host the president s briefing happening at 11 45 today. You can see that on cspan2. Shaun donovan is the white house budget director, he will hold his briefing at 12 45. You can also see that on cspan2. The Defense Department briefing happening at 1 30 talking about specifically the Defense Department budget. That happening over on cspan2 as well. If you want to check out all the action on budget day, continue with us on the cspan networks. You can also check in online. We will be posting a link to the budget document when it comes out at cspan. Org. The budget, of course, being printed by the Government Printing office. The first for the Budget Online in 1996 and has developed an online at in 20 online app in 2013. 1. 6 million views on the budget app, according to documents released today. We are talking with our viewers this morning and want to get your thoughts, take your calls on the president releasing the 4 trillion fiscal 2016 budget. We will start with arnold in Daytona Beach, florida, line for democrats. Caller yeah, how you doing . Host good, sir. Caller my comment is that i think some people, mainly republicans, need to think about something. We dont have the same kind of economy we had in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. We have an economy now where you are giving taxpayers to rich people, filthy rich people, and corporations. They are taking that money and they are reinvesting it in china, india mexico. People are getting screwed on this deal. They need to get the tax rate backup at least to what it was before george w. Bush went in. We have this huge deficit for one reason he ran it up and we are still paying interest on what he ran up. There is no way obama can get it down. It has gone on long enough people. The only changes republicans are willing to make, they are blaming us, laming us, the taxpayers. The first thing they do is try to cut Social Security disability. It is not us doing it, it is them, and the need to stop giving breaks to people that are investing in other countries. Host arnold in Daytona Beach florida. If you want to join the conversation, phone lines for republicans come democrats, an independents. Mike is waiting in illinois. Caller good morning. Host going, sir. Caller hello . Host you are on the washington journal. Caller ok, i am for cutting the tax breaks, he doesnt get enough of them, but the spending is im for the spending, it is just he did is expanding things that he did his big spending thing besides failing the banks out, and big banks not little banks. That hurt everybody. He doesnt do anything about the tax code, and we pay for factories to move overseas. Not only factories overseas, he wants to republicans and democrats dont care who come here and works. Republicans say it is ok as long as they go through the proper channels. They have got millions and millions of the visa workers. I think i read an article, 13 million in the last 10 years or so, and the last 13 years, they have created no jobs, bureau of statistics for american workers. All the jobs, 2 million have gone to immigrant workers, legal and illegal. So they dont really do much, and this spending, in Chicago Illinois here, that just goes to people that are politically connected. They fix the same roads every couple of years here. It never ends. Host let me ask you, part of this package, the details have been released today, is the 470 billion Public Works Program that the president is proposing for infrastructure funding. There is a picture of the budget there from the government pending office that we are showing our viewers right now. Would you be in favor of 478 billion Public Works Initiative . Caller sure, i could tell you where to put it, but on the biggest jobs in the country, the oilfields, all over the place you could do it by building a big grid in the northeast. Create new grids. But people dont put it in the atlantic a ocea like they want to do because noreasters will destroy that no problem. And in the rockies, the i80 corridor, they tried to do that many times. A little bird called the sage grouse in wyoming they stopped it. It is you know, the problem is, these people in washington, they dont know or care with the money goes. Host got your point, mike. We want to get as many calls as we can in this first segment of washington journal. Taking your calls on the president s 4 trillion budget plan. You can follow along on our twitter page as well. Edwin writes in that the budget is a wish list that is sure to raise agony with congress. Drew writes, everyone knows you have to spend your way out of a recession and also into one. Panther got to get rid of the belief, cut taxes and end regulation and they will hire. One entire Budget Proposal should be a Public Works Initiative. Jimmy olsen was the first one in writing in comments with his question. The nations most vile people, elected federal officials, reward their cronies with stolen the. For that reason alone, large federal budgets must always be opposed. If you want to join the conversation on facebook and twitter, happening all morning. Good morning bill. Caller good morning. I see a pattern where the federal government brings up the same things like Infrastructure Spending as the need to increase taxes, and i would be more willing to see more spending their if there was a review of past things we have spent our money on and how well we had done it. I remember there was a report on the drone use on Border Patrol that said that it was really not costeffective, but i havent seen efforts to improve that were get rid of any field programs that dont seem to be costeffective host to good up for this kind of review you were talking about, would you want that to come from congress to do that job, or would you want the agencies themselves . Caller i think a little bit of both. It is one of the jobs of the party out of power to be a watchdog for things that are not good spending of the money, and the problem is, that tends to be framed as a political debate rather than as an honest assessment of what is what money is being spent well and what is not. When we look back at things like the stimulus project or plan when we were promised Shovel Ready Projects would be funded, i havent seen a review of that of how effective that was good it makes a hard to have confidence that the money we get now will be used effectively. Caller host bill getting up early for us on washington journal. The president talked a little bit about his budget plans and the programs he is proposing in and in every with nbc news last night that air just before the super bowl. The interview took place in the white house kitchen. Here is a bit from that interview. [video clip] i think republicans believe that we should be building our infrastructure. The question is, how do we pay for it . You are offering tax hikes for the wealthy savannah, my job is to present the right ideas and if the republicans think they have a better idea, they should present them. But my job is not to trim my sales and not tell the American People what we should be doing and pretending somehow that we dont need better roads or more affordable college. One of the things ive learned over the past six years is when i told the American People very clearly what direction i think the country should go in sometimes people change the minds and even republicans occasionally start agreeing with me, although sometimes a little bit later than i would like. Host the president s budget is expected to hit capitol hill today. A phone booksized to document that legislators and committees are supposed to start going through. Some details of the proposals have come out already. The Washington Post detailing a few of those. It will include an increase in the pentagons budget by 38 billion, expanded an extended tax credits for parents paying for child care, College Students tuition, and the which college workers. It would help pay for preschool for fouryearolds from poor and middle income families. It would have a program to improve roads and bridges and railways nationwide. It would extend unemployment insurance. And so on down the line. Sure to be plenty of stories today and in the coming days about what is detailed in that document. We want to get your reaction as we tell you that topline numbers and give you the latest information on what has come out. 4 trillion budget, 3. 99 chile dollars, rounded up to 4 trillion. James in akron ohio, on our line for democrats, what do you think . Caller well, the budget is fine, but he was something that people dont seem to remember or think about the total income of the federal government in 1950 isnt even half of what it is today. That is the first thing. And all these people that are complaining about the taxes and stuff, their income hasnt went up. When the percentage of their income would have to be greater in order to feel the needs of the country. Here is one other thing, too. We talk about middleclass. We dont have a middleclass today could we have middle income. The middle class should be making over 100,000 a year. The vast majority of the people who call in here dont make 50,000. We better start thinking about this. We have to get the money from somewhere and it can only come from people who have it, the people up top who havent been paying the taxes, and the poor people taxes have been going up, people on Social Security, their income has been going down. If you look at the minimum wage from 1950 in the minimum wage today, person should be making over 20 an hour. We dont want to pay 15 for that excuse me if 20 is the minimum wage, that the middle class income should be about 140,000 a year just to be middleclass. We dont have it. That is our problem. Host jim, you mentioned the revenue of the federal government, projected revenues in fiscal 2016 expected 3. 35 trillion. If you take that revenue away from the proposed 3. 9 chile dollars budget, well 3. 9 trillion budget, we are looking at a deficit of 474 billion. Deficits different from debt the total National Debt according to the debt clock calculator that is online, over 18 trillion. That amounts to 56,500 per citizen, according to the debt clock that continues to run online. We are talking about the president s budget hitting capitol hill today. Randy is in Fort Worth Texas line for republicans. Caller hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my call. The president s budget plan is great, 4 trillion, but he is not talking about cutting anything. The federal government takes in 16 trillion annually from taxpayers. The president is taxing the rich, but for example down here in texas, we have the low income areas. The children get free breakfast free lunch, and free dinner. And the welfare check is not affected at all by that. In other words, he is raising the taxes on just the School Programs here. Why isnt the president talking about cutting any programs, that he wants to raise taxes on the rich . Host randy, we will be talking about some issues that you bring up. Two members of congress will join us later this morning. Congressman john delaney is a consummate for maryland and he will join us in about 25 minutes or so, and then we will be joined by tom rice, republican of South Carolina, and he is a Budget Committee member, talking about these issues and the stories that come out this morning as the details of the four chile dollar fiscal 2016 budget start to come out. Richard is up next in massachusetts, line for independents. Caller good morning. I think that the people calling about the big business can you hear me . Host yes, richard. Caller and how they dont pay their fair share well, big corporations and all the big businesses who hire millions of people working, we wouldnt have nothing in this country could these people dont even know what they are talking about. The taxes we give to the government, every gallon of gas sold, it is never used for what it was supposed to be for, infrastructure. We need to raise it for infrastructure. That is why whenever we give the government and it dont use it for what it is supposed to be for, that is the whole problem here. We have note say in washington. I called my congressman and congressw