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At that press conference the other day when he made the point that washington has a different kind of math and the rest of the country. in washington as he said if you spent $100 this year and $100 next year, that's a cut. if you spent 107 next year, that's a cut. let me give you a real practical example. the democrats are saying you're cutting medicaid and republicans are on the health plan by $880 billion over the next ten years. this year, excuse me, wrong whiteboard, medicaid, were spending $389 billion. under the republican plan in ten years, we would spend $469 billion, that's $80 billio...

Nancy at team cavuto, awesome job. karen, please, please. your heart. if we lose you, i'm on to reruns of let's make a deal. by the way, the camera does add 50 pounds. just saying. let's cut to the chase. most of the budget, no cuts at all. that's unless you think a cut is slowing the growth of something. because there's very little real cutting of anything. it's true, despite the fear of president trump was getting medicaid, what if i told you he's increasing funding from medicaid from $389 billion from now. that is triple of what we spent in 2000. same with food stamps. a program that we sai...

Let's look at medicaid. $389 billion today. as recently as 2000, 2000, it was $118 billion. the food stamp program, $71 billion today. that same program under snap whatever it's called now -- >> neil -- >> neil: 44 million people are getting food help. some need it. this math is not sustainable. this support -- >> you're trying to change us off the subject of medicaid. forget about the fact that donald trump promised -- >> neil: go back to medicaid. 389 billion today. >> that's what i want to talk about. >> neil: ten years from now, it will be $550 bill. >> you sound like my grandpa. he was a ...

The big issues, and we talked about it with michelle bachmann is what to do about medicare. and let's put up the differences, paul ryan's g.o.p. budget plan, calls for $389 billion in cuts and would turn medicare into a voucher plan and president obama would cut $00 billion by having an independent panel find savings, somewhere. question, according to the polls, most voters think that republicans are in effect, by this -- if they follow the ryan plan, taking away for seniors some of their health care. >> here's what i tell the public. you cannot balance the budget unless you deal with entitlem...

>> ali velshi isn't in this chair. >> reporter: one way to reduce deficits or shortfalls is to cut non-security, nondiscretionary spending. that's the stuff that isn't the kmai medicaid, the medicare, and -- the medicaid, the medicare, and social security. the president's debt commission wants to cut it by $2.2 trillion. the republican or ryan plan wants to cut $2.7 trillion over ten years. the president's plan, which he announced, wants to cuts $1.1 trillion over 12 years. now one of the major criticisms is that no party has been prepared to make the cuts to some of the biggest things we spen...