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Help get off of those programs. >> tammy is joining us from cnn money right now. tammy, some are calling this the tanks and tax cuts. tell us about some of the bigger proposed cuts put forward by the trump administration. >> he is really taking an axe to a lot of social programs. they have a whole section about reforming the welfare system where they would cut $274 billion out of it. a lot of it would hit food stamps. it would hit disability. these are programs trump supporters rely on but the big cuts come from medicaid. $610 billion listed in the budget and that mayor may not be on top of cu...

That cut would be around 27% of the total program. that is a dramatic cut. now, the rationale for that is that they are trying to get the budget over the course of a ten-year period to balance, but as you noted this, seemed to fly in the face of what agriculture secretary sonny purdue said just last week. take a listen. >> as far as i'm concerned, we have no proposed changes. you don't try to fix things that aren't broken, and when the motto is do right and feed everyone, i view that as very, very inclusive. >> now, jake, the administration is really messaging this as welfare reform. in total ...

I want people to consider what it's like to walk in the shoes of our policemen and firemen. they deserve our respect. there is a big push now for prison reform. it's being undone by what's being done attacking our comes. >> there is a cost here. this is about the cost of freedom. the cost of incarceration. it's about $74 billion. look at the cost of crime to society -- 20 times larger. $1.7 trillion. i wonder if we have to get to the point where the. >> you look at the poorest parts of washington, d.c., baltimore, milwaukee. places that need economic hope and the lack of policing because

Neighbors stunned. >> it sounded like a bomb. when it hit, i could feel the heat on my face. >> reporter: this lucky family is thinking about the pilot, his wife and teenager daughter killeded in that small plane. >> we need to have support for that family. >> reporter: little is left of that house. the family says they'll rebuild but what's important here is that they are safe. meanwhile, the ntsb is now investigating what caused this plane to go down. gio benitez, abc news, plainville, massachusetts. here's one that's hard to stomach. american 401(k) savings are being rocked by the financi...

Discuss the country's $74 billion debt crisis. u.s. bankruptcy law does not apply in the territory and a federal bailout is not in the works. today puerto rico must approve a budget for the fiscal year that begins tomorrow. the same day that a major debt payment is due. california lawmakers have approved one of the toughest vaccination bills in the country. the measure calls for mandatory vaccines for nearly all california school children, strikes down a current exemption that allows parents to decline based on personal or religious beliefs. the new bill follows a recent measles outbreak. th...