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Voted for these budget caps in 2011. now are they really conservatives? they are spending too much money. watch this. >> i'll vote for almost any tax cut that comes down. i'm for stimulating economic growth through a tax cut. but i won't do it and say i'm also -- i don't care about spending. the budget vote to me is a symbol and a guide post as to what we are as a party and what we stand for. and the people like mccain and graham who parade as conservatives, but are not really conservative, they need to be called out. they are playing the public and they are playing us for fools. neither one o...

We're making sure that when we do it, we do it right. >> reporter: on wednesday the senate moved forward with legislation to place new sanctions on iran, but the bill isn't necessarily finalized. senators are also talking about adding an amendment to sanction russia. so, liz, that's another thing we'll want to keep an eye on this week. elizabeth: elizabeth allison barber, thank you so much for that preview. leland: add this this week, the house appropriations committee begins debating president trump's proposed 10% increase in military spending. to say it faces skepticism would be an understat...

Talking about in terms of even obamacare, whether or not it's not going to do anything but just run up the bills that the -- that he has said he's going to be paying, are you concerned when you look at the numbers of this budget in its sort of broad outline that you've seen? >> as you said, it's a broad outline. that's very important to see some of the details to comment responsibly on. i like some of the things the president said. i have concerns on how things are paid for in defense specifically. these budget caps. sequestration has hurt our mate nance, readiness and deployment schedules. i ...

>> it may have been the most important vote of the year, but certainly the largest spending bill of the year and, yeah, i think if you are being paid by the taxpayer you should show up and vote. so i think this is a big issue. and i think for him to say he's only going to show up when he thinks it's a close vote, i don't think that passes muster. i think really that he ought to just resign or probably give us payback because he's not really earning his pay at this point. but yeah, this spending bill was something that was horrendous. it was $1.1 trillion spending bill. it busts the budget ca...

>> it may have been the most important vote of the year, but certainly the largest spending bill of the year and, yeah, i think if you are being paid by the taxpayer you should show up and vote. so i think this is a big issue. and i think for him to say he's only going to show up when he thinks it's a close vote, i don't think that passes muster. i think really that he ought to just resign or probably give us payback because he's not really earning his pay at this point. but yeah, this spending bill was something that was horrendous. it was $1.1 trillion spending bill. it busts the budget ca...