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Democrats and republicans, a value to that. democrat chris coons said this. >> this is not the time for us to splash developments in diplomacy around the world. the initial budgetary proposals from the trump administration suggests that a nearly 30% stat. this is exactly the moment where we need to be leading with diplomacy. >> bret: does he have a point? are you worried about cuts? >> i am worried about cuts longer term. we have undertaken a budget exercise to accommodate as best we can the president's objective to reduce the cost of what we do over here at the state department, and we'll be ...

The massive cuts, they have no reporters on the plane with rex tillerson as he's making his first official trip to asia. writing a profile on rex tillerson. what is the american public make of this downsizing of the state department? downsizing you could argue the state department's influence and this rise in donald trump's core group? his family members as the wielders of power? the diplomats in a trump administration? >> in many ways, it is entirely in keeping with what he campaigned on in terms of retreating from the stage internationally in terms of bashing our multilateral institutions li...

$54 billion for the pentagon, and billions in cuts to domestic and foreign aid programs. the white house pressed on after school programs and meals on wheels and the american people paying the tab for that wall, at least for now. abc's mary bruce on capitol hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the white house touting and defending a budget that would dramatically scramble the nation's spending priorities. >> we'll remind you we're calling it the american budget. we are an america first candidate, and you have a america first president, and it shouldn't surprise anybody we have an america first ...

And what is promising to be a long tigh long fight. they don't need the budget in place until october so this is going to be a long, drawn-out fight. >> you heard chris talking about hard power versus soft power budget. lots of money on defense, not on different aid programs to go overseas. tom, every federal agency will say we need more money but the pentagon is looking at over $50 billion. what are they going to do with that that they can't do now? >> officials will probably tell you they need more. tactically they think they have a readiness problem here.

Business board concluded that it could easily save $125 billion over five years by removing operational inefficiencies. senior officials quickly buried the report. . those savings alone would fund the entire state department plus all foreign aid programs for two and a half years. gates used to note we have more people in military bands that we have foreign service officers. he's talked about the billions of dollars in the. middle east. that figure is exaggerated, but he's right. . when the pentagon goes to war, costs go through the stratosphere. in just one example, ta tallied up the audits fo...