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We lifted more than 4 million americans off of food stamps. african-americans, hispanic americans, asian americans. and in the history of the country. and now kim jong-il. we have secured $660 billion to fully rebuild the united states military. . >> and with my direction the pentagon is working to create the sixth branch of the american armed, forces, space force. that is where it's at. veterans choice giving them the right to see a private doctor and the landmark

Screen 20678916 the budget deficit for that year, $587 billion. first year the trump administration went up to $660 billion. the congressional budget office suggesting it could be a trillion dollars next year. less revenue coming in because there have been tax cuts for the military and other issues as well. how does the koch network feel about a trillion dollar budget deficit coming up? >> we think that's awful. the problem is not a tax cut americans rightly deserve. that has stimulated the economy. the problem is the $1.3 trillion package that republicans signed into place. that is a lack of ...

Medicare, medicaid and social security off the table. >> that's right. that's mandatory expenditure too. that's off the table. paul: all right. so dan, i mean, trillion dollar deficit last year the budget deficit was 660 billion, last fiscal year, we are heading to a trillion bucks. >> right, conservatives in the house were threatening to shut down the government, senator rand paul did so temporarily for a while in the middle of the night, but what is the bottom -- there's a couple of bottom lines here literally, paul, you only have 51 seats in the senate, they lost that one in alabama and so ...

There? >> the school of thought is there, we need revenue, certain amounts of revenue to pay bills. we have $20 trillion of debt. we're projected to have more debt. this will be $660 billion deficit. we've got to reverse that. i talked to corporations, they're not objecting at 25%. they want that 10% reduction. i think there is enough democrats that will vote with my republican friends to make that happen. they want territorial. there are things we're agreeing on if we can find that middle as they say. brian: all right. so today you're going to the white house. you were invited there, about th...

And among the $4 trillion in cuts it proposes are billions upon billions slashed from both medicaid and social security. the republican health care plan passed out of the house already already included $880 billion in cuts to medicaid and cut an additional $660 billion over ten years, all but gutting the program. the president's budget would slash funding for social security disability insurance, ssdi, which provides benefits to people with disabilities. many of them were once factory workers and manual workers in places like the rust belt, which helped thriver the president his electoral coll...