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Really interesting -- it's 50 million americans. that's 16% of the u.s. population receiving medicaid. that number did spike when the great recession set its teeth in. the combined cost, $462 billion, that accounts for 13% of the federal budget. social security -- this is in 2010, these costs are both 2010 -- $724 billion for social security, 20% of the federal budget. there are tens of millions of americans who receive these entitlements. then when you talk about how much they cost, that's why you see there's so much debate in congress. >> lot of people going to be paying attention to those d...

Now. >> james tea party freeman. what do you think of this deal? >> well, i'm in the, i'm in kansas city, so, i've been on the ground for a few hours and i think i'm qualified to speak for all the people in the heartland of america. i think, i assume many of them, once i talk to them. i think that many will say they're tired of the chuck schumer, washington distortion suggesting that this 61 billion is the tea party plan. this is not the extreme tea party plan, tea partiers want to balance the budget. that would mean cutting another trillion and a half or more. so, this is a very modest step t...

I think we need to change the arch of history and get that ing from obamacare back that's driving this. the -- the stimulus spending. obamacare driving the need for all this ing. >> greta: so i understand your view. -- how many billions would need to be cut from the budget for to you vote for it? >> i need to see a defunding of obamacare. i'm not worried as much about whether it is 20 billion or 62 billion. in my opinion, that won't change the arch of history. what will is whether or not obamacare is funded. today as you and you are talking it is funded. we need to see it defunded because the ...

That's a very dicey vote. i think we need to change the arch of history and get that ing from obamacare back that's driving this. the -- the stimulus spending. obamacare driving the need for all this ing. >> greta: so i understand your view. -- how many billions would need to be cut from the budget for to you vote for it? >> i need to see a defunding of obamacare. i'm not worried as much about whether it is 20 billion or 62 billion. in my opinion, that won't change the arch of history. what will is whether or not obamacare is funded. today as you and you are talking it is funded. we need to se...

April 8th and there is speculation this we might have another one. >> reporter: confidence is high that we probably will. jon: a lot of people feel when they were sent to washington, especially the house of representatives, they want to cut spending. >> reporter: there is a conservative group in the house that is saying we passed a bill in the house earlier to cut 62 billion i think it is for fiscal 2011, the current year, which ends in september, and we are going to stick to that. they've already got even 10 billion cut through two of these continuing resolutions and they want to stick to the...