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Here's abc's senior national correspondent terry moran. >> reporter: for more than 50 years, the special olympics have been part of a revolutionary movement, putting people with intellectual disabilities front and center, in a new light on the world stage. for decades, the government supported the games. but now the trump administration wants to eliminate all federal funding. >> i still can't understand why you would go after disabled children in your budget. you zero that out. it's appalling. >> reporter: on capitol hill, education secretary betsy devos under fire. asked how many young athlet...

Declaration and the president send congress a record of $4.75 trillion budget for fiscal year 2020 calling for increased military spending and decreasing the education department budget by more than $7 billion. and i would now like to bring in the tri-caucus panel, congresswoman judy chu and chair of the asian caucus. also congresswoman eve yet clark and from california aid re ano espaillat. it is a great gathering today. and i will start in the studio first, let me ask you this, if i may, representative clark, what do you make of the budget? this move away from education, which brought one po...

Welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. president trump has formally submitted his 2020 budget to congress and it appears his promises to slash the government's debt will be easier said than done. he's proposing a $4.75 trillion budget with a focus on increasing military spending. the defense department's budget is to be boosted by $33 billion to $718 billion or more than half of the entire proposed federal discretionary budget. the plan also calls for $8.6 billion to be set aside for constru...

Elizabeth warren is proposing. i watched the speech yesterday. there was a lot of energy there. i think she's someone that people can feel proud supporting, of course. she's led a good strong career. this idea of a wealth tax is bumper sticker policy. it would raise $2.75 trillion over the course of ten years which is a drop in the bucket when you consider that medicare for all costs $32 trillion. >> hold on a second. are you saying the problem with the wealth tax is it's not raising enough? only $2.7 trillion then maybe the wealth tax should be higher? >> what i'm saying is it's not a solutio...

Amount of wealth. >> i mean they may be open to the ideas but everything you said is disconnected from everything else. what does jeff bezos' pay structure at amazon has to do with 800,000 workers or workers living from paycheck to paycheck. >> let me give you a couple of numbers, you were right, it was 2% over 59. 3% of households. this is warren's plan. >> it would raise $2.75 trillion in ten years and draw 75,000 families draw from only 75,000 families. that's 0.1% of u.s. household. >> here is the problem with this. even if you believe in it, history tells us one thing, even if you believe...