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Faith or standing by their man? >> reporter: wesley easterly and his 2-year-old daughter live in the heart of appalachia. elliott county, kentucky. >> i voted for donald trump. >> reporter: which is noteworthy because donald trump is the first republican presidential candidate he has ever voted for. elliott county was founded in 1869. there have been 37 presidential elections since then. remarkably, in this county, the democratic candidate has won every one of those elections, until this one. and donald trump won big here getting more than 70% of the vote. many people like wesley easterly beli...

Heather: democrat slamming donald trump's $4.1 trillion budget, unfairly slashes benefit programs in order to boost the literary spending. >> reporter: democrats are blasting it, even some republicans calling it dead on arrival. mick mulvaney vigorously defending it. >> not a single thing in here touches social security retirement or medicare. that is what the president said in his campaign. he would not change those things. we won't measure it by the amount of money we spend with a number of people we help. rob: medicaid spending cuts, welfare spending cuts, key

Federal retirement closer to the private sector. we increase the contributions that they make to their 401(k) programs. one program, we got rid of a cost-of-living adjustment, but keep in mind, those are folks who will also be participating in social security at the same time, which is a cost-of-living adjustment. we thought they were common sense reforms to try and bring the federal government benefit programs closer to the private sector. i'm a federal worker. i have a pension and a 401(k). raise your hand if you're in the private sector and you have a pension and 401(k). my guess is, did yo...

Branch has a lot of power and discretion on these matters. the obama administration made that case repeatedly about enforcement discretion and again i think particularly on what we just heard there, the outline from john roberts, that is going to have a ground swell of public support. i think public opinion will be at the back of the white house and president on this one. >> shannon: i know something that has gotten a lot of attention of those being prioritized those abuse public benefit programs. this was something that then senator jeff sessions, now attorney general jeff sessions talked abo...

Drug addict and would support his daughter's execution if she is found guilty. federal investigators releasing new documents revealing the pilot of a u.p.s. cargo yet told a co-worker his work schedule was, quote, killing him, a day before he and his co-pilot were killed in a crash in alabama last august. fox news alert now. the president set to drop social security reforms from his latest budget request. the white house saying his proposal won't include his past offer to accept lowered cost of living increases in social security and other benefit programs, which had been seen as an olive ...