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Maternity leave, measures to address the climate crisis. what are you willing to trim to get the cost down? >> well, here's what i think has to happen. first of all, we need to see what programs the senate are going to offer. we can't do a percentage cut. we can't do an across the board cut. programs don't work that way. so we're not prepared to slice and dice. we want to hear what the senate has. but i will tell you our priorities include housing, lowering the drug costs, and creating the care economy. congressional black caucus is concerned with the federal medicaid, what was dropped off for...

President's commitment to work with us and i love that phrase. six minutes, six days, or six weeks. it will be before that but frankly, this gives us an opportunity to focus on the priorities to get the bill back better build right and really his work in the senate, all senators democratic and if there's ever one republican, we welcome them, to get it right for the american people. that's what -- >> i want to put up this graphic showing what the wish list is for biden's build back better plan. universal free pre-k. what are you willing to trim to get the cost down? >> well, here's what i think...

Tomorrow. it is already stoking fears of another government shutdown. dare i say it, nbc's mike vacaro is at the white house. what are you expecting to see in this proposal tomorrow, mike? >> reporter: good afternoon, kendis. it's become a cliche when the president says he sends a budget up to capitol hill it's dead on arrival. it's d.o.a. this doesn't have a pulse. the president proposes, congress disposes. congress will dispose this immediately especially on the house side right into the waste basket. this is purely a political document. yes, it does give us some indication of the priorities...

If congress can't agree to cut 1% across the board, it would be 1% across the board and include military. but let's say congress said they wanted to do it all domestic, they could. the bottom line has to equal 1%. a 1% cut each year is about $13 billion, actually balances the budget in five years. what's interesting about mu budg -- my budget proposal is it's what they want but it's a privileged motion, which means the senate will vote on it, even if they don't present their own budget. so i'm doing a budget for them. i will include instructions to allow for the expansion of health savings acc...

The board cut in taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963. i'm not talking about a temporary tax cut, which would be more appropriate if a recession were eminent. nor am i talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm. >>wow, now president kennedy slashed the top marginal tax rate. millions of jobs were created and revenue to the federal government, lower taxes. it didn't go down. it increased. reag r here's what president reagan said back in 1981. >>if the tax cut goes to you, the american people, in the third year, that money returned to you won't be available to the