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And future generations in mind. >> reporter: this election year budget lays out a fiscal road map for the president's populist agen agenda, expanding opportunity and shrinking the gap between rich and poor. it increases spending for pre-kindergarten education, extending the tax credit for low income workers with no kids and about $300 billion for infrastructure projects. >> it's a road map for creating jobs. >> reporter: it's a steep price tag, paid for with spending cuts and tax increases. the president wants to raise about $650 billion in revenue by limiting tax deductions for the wealthiest...

Let that be known. it's not happening. >> all right. so, cutting spending is not happening. watching where all this is going down, michael? >> the budget blueprint has taken a lot of heat because it's seen as not making the tough choices about the major drivers of our debt. it's a $3.9 trillion plan laying out the president's priorities. it includes spending $302 billion on highways and railroads and mass transit. it provides more money for job training and preschool and it expands tax credits for an estimated 13.5 million low-income workers and it increases taxes more than $650 billion on hig...

Stupid things like that. >> greta, how about having a $650 billion web site that doesn't work well and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to go to so-called quote navigators, communities, community groups, a lot of them on the left of american politics. who have signed up very few people in some states have signed up zero people. many of these groups have signed up a handful of people and they are getting large amounts of money each month from the federal government for their help on this program and you are right. this was not well thought out. and we are spending a lot...

I don't buy it when people tell me how important this is when they do stupid things like that. >> how about having a $650 billion website that doesn't work well and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to go to navigators, community groups, a lot of them on the left of american politics who have signed up very few people in some states have signed up zero people. many have signed up a handful of people and getting large amounts of money from the federal government for their help on this program. and you're right, this was not well thought out. and we are spending a lot of ...

The world of military, industrial states that could harm american security. today, after the pinprick, it would be 600 billion. in other words, they're trying to take it back to 650 billion, more than 50% higher than we got along with that worked in the year 2000. now the democrats are saying, okay, we'll give you the defense back, but we want our domestic spending back. and they're wrong, because if you take domestic discretionary spending when bill clinton left, that he wasn't starving the budget, it was 400 billion. and it will be 575 billion after the pen prick. so therefore, progressives ...