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Popular benefit programs such as social security. the president says his proposal will cut next year's deficit to $744 billion, it's the lowess since 2008. his plan will cut the deficit by an extra $1.8 trillion over the next ten years bringing the total savings to $4.3 trillion based on the administration's calculations. of course the cbo will take a look at this as well. the president's ten-year plan will trim $100 billion from defense spending. $400billion from medicare and save $230 billion by change -lg the inflation formula for benefit programs. there is going to be a quiz on this later....

The future cost of living increases for social security and other benefit programs. >> it's a compromise i'm willing to accept in order to move beyond a cycle of short-term crisis driven decision making. so that we can focus on growing our economy and our middle class for the long run. it includes many ideas republicans have said they could accept as well. it's a way we can make progress together. >> republican house speaker john boehner, seen here with the president last november, says the president's budget appears to have only, quote, modest entitlement savings, and won't make social securi...

This battle that's going on over the budget. >> hi, kelly. president obama said today that his budget is a quote, compromise, but so far, republican leaders don't see it that way. the president will unveil the details on wednesday, but it's said to include some tax hikes. and some cuts to the growth of social security and other benefit programs. here is what the president said in his weekly radio and internet address. >> my budget will reduce our deficits, not with aimless, reckless spending cuts that hurt seniors and middle class families, but through the balanced approach that american peopl...

We'll move on with that. andy, let's go to the president's budget. he's certainly getting flack from his own party for the proposed changes to the entitlement programs. what is the strategy here? >> i think the strategy, alex, is to show the republican senators that he's having dinner with on a regular basis that he's serious about reaching a grand bargain, and that would necessarily involve pains for both sides of the aisle because, as you noted, when you tackle these very popular benefit programs like medicare and social security, a lot of democrats and a lot of liberals in general are going...