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Part of the president's outreach to republicans is to remind them he has put on a table about $400 billion in cuts to medicare and medicaid as well as about $130 billion in a shift in the way we calculate federal benefits. i think the contours of a deal will come, if it does come at all, around the debt ceiling date and the months leading up to it. >> nancy, good to see you, and andy lowry, the economic policy reporter at the "new york times." >> paul ryan calls his budget the path to prosperity. mitt romney hoped it would be the path to the presidency, but that didn'twork out. ryan will not b...

Deadline to put forth a proposal and he doesn't have much time left. >> my goal is not to achieve a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. my goal is how do we grow the economy, but america back to work? >> america doesn't really have a budget right now, it has a continual resolution, which is an extension of an earlier budget. that expires on march 27th. if government goes beyond that without a patch, they could shut down. we're supposed to have an actual budget resolution voted on and in place by april 15th, but we're way behind on that. on may 18th, we're set to hit the debt ceiling....